Quotes about Exploration

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

Transcendentalists assert that the human mind is the same—and just as open to inspiration—across all boundaries of geography, culture, race, and religion. They celebrate the expansive, daring explorations of the Eastern mind, and find much wisdom in Hinduism and Buddhism.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and' t is mere tinsel; {it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and make a trail.

It's not the destination, it's the journey.

He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how loathsome.

Learning requires curiosity, exploration, evaluation, and dialogue. To be granted the product of knowledge without this process would violate what it means to be a creature.

Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery."2

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

The more we descend into the interworkings of the cell or ascend to the depths of the universe, the more we can see the fingerprint of God.

Experience gives us confidence, but we never get experience unless we step out and try things we have not tried before.

If we are not willing to risk what we have now, we will never find out what we could have.