Quotes of Exploration - somelinesforyou

“ One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls this adventure Science. ”

- Edward Powell Hubble

“ No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ”

- Helen Keller

“ In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth. ”

- Susanne Langer

“ We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ I'm of the mind that even people who have limitations, if they have a curiosity, they will find a way to explore it. ”

- Tish Grier

“ Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and know the place for the first time. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward. ”

- Valentina Tereshkova

“ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny…'. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. ”

- Ansel Adams

“ The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ”

- E. L. Doctorow

“ Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. ”

- Frank Borman

“ We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. ”

- John Hope Franklin

“ Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth. ”

- Susanne Langer

“ The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ Learning is the discovery that something is possible. ”

- Fritz Perls

“ I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. ”

- Rita Dove

“ In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation. ”

- Charles Lyell

“ The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ Exploration really is the essence of the human spirit, and to pause, to falter, to turn our back on the quest for knowledge, is to perish. ”

- Frank Borman

“ No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ”

- Edwin Powell Hubble

“ America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ”

- Albert Einstein
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