Quotes about Exploration
We are one life reaching out into a dark future.
— Frank Herbert
There had been so many things to learn. Arrakis would be a place so different from Caladan that Paul's mind whirled with the new knowledge. Arrakis—Dune—Desert Planet.
— Frank Herbert
Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.
— Frank Herbert
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
— Dale Carnegie
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
— Stephen Hawking
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...
— Madeleine L'Engle
A book, too, can be a star, explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
— Madeleine L'Engle
People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We must not take from our children—or ourselves—the truth that is in the world of the imagination.
— Madeleine L'Engle