Exploration quotes

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
-- Abraham Pais

#Numbers #Fancy #Exploration

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
-- Alfred de Vigny

#Age #Movement #Exploration

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
-- Alton Tobey

#Artistic #Exploration #Realism

Pioneering don't pay.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#Pay #Exploration

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Doe #Exploration #Explorers

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Time #Way #Exploration

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Future #Exploration #Predictions

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.
-- Arthur Ganson

#Artist #Passionate #Exploration

Exploration is the sport of the scientist
-- Auguste Piccard

#Sports #Exploration #Scientist

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
-- Bill Nye

#People #Exploration #Extraordinary

I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.
-- Cindy Sherman

#Thinking #Kind #Exploration

The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Imagination #Exploration #My Favorite

The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.
-- David Livingstone

#Missionary #Exploration #Ends

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.
-- Duane G. Carey

#Exploration #Wanted

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.
-- E. L. Doctorow

#Writing #Exploration

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
-- Edith Widder

#Innovation #Growth #Exploration

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
-- Frank Borman

#Essence #Spirit #Exploration

The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard them immediately on this account. For every hypothesis which once was sound was useful for thinking of previous phenomena in the proper interrelations and for keeping them in context. We ought to set down contradictory experiences separately, until enough have accumulated to make building a new structure worthwhile.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Thinking #Sound #Exploration

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.
-- George Brecht

#Art #Mysterious #Exploration

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.
-- Guido Molinari

#Exploration #Repetition

The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.
-- H. G. Wells

#Choices #Exploration #Space Exploration

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.
-- Jack Dann

#Writing #Journey #Exploration

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
-- John Archibald Wheeler

#Science #Fields #Exploration

You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!
-- John Taylor Gatto

#Adventure #Needs #Exploration

One of the hallmarks of the team is this sense of looking to be wrong. It's the inquisitiveness, and sense of exploration. It's about being excited to be wrong, because then you've discovered something new.
-- Jonathan Ive

#Team #Excited #Exploration

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss

#Understanding #Important #Exploration

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.
-- Leonard Nimoy

#Thinking #Matter #Exploration

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Space #Would Be #Exploration

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.
-- Lisa Randall

#Ideas #Progress #Exploration

To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to go to.
-- Lynne McTaggart

#Inspirational #Exploration #Plans

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
-- Manuel Puig

#Ghouls #Film #Exploration

Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Exploration #Scientist #Discovering

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Space #Rivals #Exploration

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Kids #Stuff #Exploration

Acting is constant exploration.
-- Paul Guilfoyle

#Acting #Exploration #Constant

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.
-- Penn Jillette

#Space #Needs #Exploration

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.
-- Poul Anderson

#Exploration #Reason #Solar System

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

#Thinking #Age #Exploration

Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.
-- Story Musgrave

#Path #Exploration

A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.
-- T. J. Stiles

#Vivid #Wilderness #Exploration

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
-- William Least Heat-Moon

#Country #Exploration

I see nothing to fear in inner space.
-- Yeshe Tsogyal

#Space #Exploration #Space Exploration

First and foremost, note that Plato always wrote dialogues, and never attempted to produce a theoretical or scientific treatise. This is a big clue for me. From beginning to end, Plato was aware of the limits of theoretical and technical reasoning, and his dialogues are a massive exploration.
-- David Roochnik

#Plato #Clue #Exploration

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.
-- Dimitar Sasselov

#Discovery #Looks #Exploration

At practically every level, the way I make comics is an act of improvising within structural boundaries. There's a rough plan, with a beginning, middle and an end, but how I get from one point to another is unknown at the outset, and a large part of what keeps me engaged. It's an exploration for me, and hopefully for the reader as well.
-- Jason Lutes

#Exploration #Boundaries #Rough

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.
-- Jose Parla

#Self #Painting #Exploration

Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch. It's also an exaggeration when placed across from the race riots. Because again you have the police department and you have Michael Jackson.
-- Kelley Walker

#Police #Exploration #Impulse

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
-- Paul S. Kemp

#Moral #Fantasy #Exploration

Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] Miró as opposed to my more static exploration of space.
-- Warren MacKenzie

#Space #Exploration #Form

Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.
-- Ben Richards

#America #Space #Exploration

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
-- Roger von Oech

#Important #Exploration #Willing

Every exploration is an appropriation.
-- Roland Barthes

#Exploration #Appropriation

On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.
-- Julie Payette

#Country #Innovation #Exploration