Quotes about Exploration

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.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

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...

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.

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

We must not take from our children—or ourselves—the truth that is in the world of the imagination.

In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is that he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.

We'll never leave the solar system as long as we keep on thinking of time as a river flowing from one direction into the sea.

I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.