Best 277 quotes in «exploration quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

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.

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.

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

Pioneering don't pay.

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

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

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

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

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.

Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

We shall not cease from exploration

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any shutter left open to the zenith at night will record the wheeling of all the sky’s stars as a pattern of perfect, concentric circles. I seek a reduction, a shedding, a sloughing off. At the seashore you often see a shell, or fragment of a shell, that sharp sands and surf have thinned to a wisp. There is no way you can tell what kind of shell it had been, what creature it had housed; it could have been a whelk or a scallop, a cowrie, limpet, or conch. The animal is long since dissolved, and its blood spread and thinned in the general sea. All you hold in your hand is a cool shred of shell, an inch long, pared so thin that it passes a faint pink light. It is an essence, a smooth condensation of the air, a curve. I long for the North where unimpeded winds would hone me to such a pure slip of bone. But I’ll not go northing this year. I’ll stalk that floating pole and frigid air by waiting here. I wait on bridges; I wait, struck, on forest paths and meadow’s fringes, hilltops and banksides, day in and day out, and I receive a southing as a gift. The North washes down the mountains like a waterfall, like a tidal wave, and pours across the valley; it comes to me. It sweetens the persimmons and numbs the last of the crickets and hornets; it fans the flames of the forest maples, bows the meadow’s seeded grasses and pokes it chilling fingers under the leaf litter, thrusting the springtails and the earthworms deeper into the earth. The sun heaves to the south by day, and at night wild Orion emerges looming like the Specter over Dead Man Mountain. Something is already here, and more is coming.

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.