Best 277 quotes in «exploration quotes» category

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

First and foremost, note that Plato always wrote dialogues, and never attempted to produce a theoretical or scientific treatise. This is a big clue for me. From beginning to end, Plato was aware of the limits of theoretical and technical reasoning, and his dialogues are a massive exploration.

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.

I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research, logistics and the business related to the production of shale gas.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Kirk Cameron pulls no punches in his exploration of mankind's greatest dilemma. Unstoppable is a captivating, raw, and candid journey that gracefully delivers hope and poignant truth every step of the way. It's a masterful and timely production!

I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

Mysticism is the hidden way. It is the most difficult to discuss, because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are difficult to describe in words.

Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch. It's also an exaggeration when placed across from the race riots. Because again you have the police department and you have Michael Jackson.

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

Movies are explorations; they take you on a path, and I think it's always better if it's a path that you don't know, that takes twists and turns that you can't predict. That's what's entertaining about movies. That's what's entertaining about novels.

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

One of the hallmarks of the team is this sense of looking to be wrong. It's the inquisitiveness, and sense of exploration. It's about being excited to be wrong, because then you've discovered something new.

Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

Part of accepting a role is being interested in the character and part of it is being interested in the movie or what it means and the exploration of it. But it's more about not knowing the answers to certain questions but wanting to go on the journey of discovery to find the answers.

Pioneering don't pay.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.

The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to go to.

Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.