Quotes about Exploration

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.