Quotes about Exploration
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
— Stephen Hawking
Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God's voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.
— Frederick Buechner
Man is incurably curious.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
— Henry David Thoreau
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
— Albert Einstein
I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
— Malcolm X
If he be a stranger in the world, that knows not the things that are in it; why not be a stranger as well, that wonders at the the things that are done in it?
— Marcus Aurelius
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
— Cicero
There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
— Margaret Atwood
But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything?
— Margaret Atwood