exploratory spirit Quotes

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell... I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going.

Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter.

I've always wanted to know what it's like to be the first to do something.

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

I am just a curious gal who is continuing to be curious.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

So we say, oh, my goodness; we think we've found another Earth-like planet. We will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do.

We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.

The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different than a scientist, who is simply wanting to learn.

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'