Exploration Quotes:

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

- Abraham Pais

source: "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 45), 1988.

topic: Numbers, Fancy, Exploration, Theoretical

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

- Alfred de Vigny

topic: Age, Movement, Exploration

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

- Alton Tobey

topic: Artistic, Exploration, Realism, Double Life

Pioneering don't pay.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: 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

topic: 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

source: Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1937). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

topic: Time, Way, Exploration, Antarctica

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: 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

topic: Artist, Passionate, Exploration

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

- Auguste Piccard

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: Thinking, Kind, Exploration, Escapists

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

- David Livingstone

topic: 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

topic: Exploration, Wanted

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

- E. L. Doctorow

source: "The Myth Maker". Interview with Bruce Weber, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 1985.

topic: Writing, Exploration, Personal Writing

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

- Edith Widder

topic: Innovation, Growth, Exploration, Innovation And Leadership

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

- Frank Borman

topic: 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

topic: 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

source: George Brecht, Onnasch Galerie (New York, N.Y.) (1973). “George Brecht, works 1957-1973: Onnasch Galerie, New York, November 1973 ...”

topic: Art, Mysterious, Exploration

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

- Guido Molinari

topic: Exploration, Repetition

The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Choices, Exploration, Space Exploration

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

- Jack Dann

topic: Writing, Journey, Exploration

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

- John Archibald Wheeler

topic: Science, Fields, Exploration

You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: 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

topic: Team, Excited, Exploration

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

- Lawrence M. Krauss

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: Space, Would Be, Exploration

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

- Lisa Randall

topic: 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

source: Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.13, Harper Collins

topic: Inspirational, Exploration, Plans

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

- Manuel Puig

topic: 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

topic: Exploration, Scientist, Discovering

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

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: 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

topic: Kids, Stuff, Exploration

Acting is constant exploration.

- Paul Guilfoyle

topic: 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

topic: Space, Needs, Exploration

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

- Poul Anderson

source: Poul Anderson (2008). “The Van Rijn Method”, p.54, Baen Publishing Enterprises

topic: Exploration, Reason, Solar System

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

- Robert Ballard

topic: Thinking, Age, Exploration

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

- Story Musgrave

topic: Path, Exploration

A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.

- T. J. Stiles

topic: Vivid, Wilderness, Exploration

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

- William Least Heat-Moon

topic: Country, Exploration

I see nothing to fear in inner space.

- Yeshe Tsogyal

topic: 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

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: 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

source: "Starmen: Wolfgang Tillmans meets Dimitar Sasselov". Interview with Chris Hatherill, www.dazeddigital.com. August 20, 2010.

topic: Discovery, Looks, Exploration, Discovery In Science

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

source: "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

topic: 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

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: 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

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Police, Exploration, Impulse

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

- Paul S. Kemp

topic: 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

topic: 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

source: "Ben Richards Exclusive Interview OUTCASTS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 21, 2010.

topic: America, Space, Exploration

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

- Roger von Oech

source: Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

topic: Important, Exploration, Willing

Every exploration is an appropriation.

- Roland Barthes

source: Roland Barthes (1997). “The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies”, p.14, Univ of California Press

topic: 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

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Country, Innovation, Exploration

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

- Frank Herbert

source: "Doll Factory, Gun Factory" in "he Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction" edited by Tim O'Reilly, 1987.

topic: Limits, Firsts, Exploration, Futurism

Mysticism is the hidden way. It is the most difficult to discuss, because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are difficult to describe in words.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Way, Exploration, States

Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Enlightenment, Exploration

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.299, Rajpal & Sons

topic: Men, Action, Exploration

Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Play, Needs, Exploration

And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Singing, Unseen, Exploration

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

- Dan Brown

topic: Doors, People, Exploration, Da Vinci Code

My work became an exploration of non-intention.

- John Cage

source: John Cage, Richard Kostelanetz (1993). “John Cage, writer: previously uncollected pieces”, Amadeus Press

topic: Exploration, Intention

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

- Daniel Radcliffe

topic: Imagination, Exploration, My Favorite, Margarita, Human Imagination

I do not explain, I explore.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Exploration

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Writing, Exploration, Absence

The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

topic: Use, Exploration, Method

There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.

- John McCain

source: "NASA likely to weather political scrutiny" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2003.

topic: Space, Exploration, Certain, Romanticism

I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.

- David Livingstone

source: "David Livingstone: Missionary to Africa".

topic: Missionary, Exploration, Ends

Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.

- Gregory Bateson

topic: Play, Exploration, Establishment

Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.

- Joyce Carol Oates

topic: Stories, Paradise, Exploration, Transience, Poignant

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

- Jules Verne

source: Jules Verne (1993). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Completely Restored and Annotated Ed.”, Naval Inst Pr

topic: Curiosity, Pay, Exploration

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

- William F. Buckley, Jr.

source: William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959). “Up from Liberalism”

topic: Men, Important, Exploration, Acknowledgement

Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

- Buzz Aldrin

topic: Space Flight, Vision, Exploration, Space Exploration

Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers.

- Newt Gingrich

topic: Country, Energy, Exploration

Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.

- Laini Taylor

source: Laini Taylor (2014). “Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.402, Hachette UK

topic: Fall, Infinity, Exploration