Quotes about Exploration
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
The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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.
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
- John Mayer
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
Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.
- Margaret Atwood