Exploration Quotes

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. (E. L. Doctorow)
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. View quote
T. S. Eliot
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. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Mythology, science, space exploration, these are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write. View quote
Vangelis
All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?' View quote
Alison Gopnik
And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration. View quote
Pam Grier
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. View quote
Leonard Nimoy
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology. View quote
Margaret Mead
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. (Marshall McLuhan)
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. View quote
Ryszard Kapuściński
The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities. View quote
Colin Wilson
I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration. View quote
Masiela Lusha
It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge. View quote
Helen Keller
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars. View quote
Carl Sagan
It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. View quote
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. View quote
Ansel Adams
An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development. View quote
Lewis M. Branscomb
Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the surface. A review like this can provide little more than an overview. A detailed exploration of the movie, its style, and its mysteries requires dedication that only someone immersed in Blade Runner lore can provide. (James Berardinelli)
It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value." View quote
Richard Stallman
If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration. View quote
Frank Herbert
It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications. [...] Indeed, the very suggestiveness of a notation may make it seem harder to learn because of the many properties it suggests for exploration. View quote
Kenneth E. Iverson
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives. View quote
Daniel Dennett