Quotes about Exploration

I don't much care where-" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," "so long as I get somewhere," "Oh, you're sure to do that, if you only walk long enough"/ "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."/ Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! The love-gift of a fairy-tale. ?Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass?

What matter it how far we go? his scaly friend replied.There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.

she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed;

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.