Uncharted Territory Quotes

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

where the world ends is where you must begin

There is a place where the sidewalk ends.

A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the same old me? There is comfort in the tried and true. Breaking ground might uncover a sinkhole, one impossible to climb out of. And setting sail in uncharted waters might mean capsizing into a sea monster's jaws. Easier to turn my back on these things than to try tjem and fail. And yet, a whisper insists I need to know if they are or aren't integral to me. Status quo is a swamp. And stagnation is slow death.

Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then there was some edge beyond which no one had explored.

For me, I have never walked a path that has been carefully crafted or charted. I have gone into territory unknown on many an occasion.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

When you are on the very frontier of science, everything is chaotic.

In the beginning, all the world was America.

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.