(481 quotes found)
“The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;”
Guillaume Thomas Raynal
“Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known”
Vladimir Nabokov
“To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near, and to record in details with the eyes of a child, any beauty, horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell.”
Dan Eldon
“Be an explorer...read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play...do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world.”
Charles Thompson
“That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence”
Leonard Nimoy
“In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.”
John Archibald Wheeler
“It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.”
Roger Von Oech
“I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.”
Charles Kuralt
“We don't require our astronomers to explore the heavens with 19th century telescopes, and we don't require our geologists to study the Earth with a tape measure. If we are serious about realizing the promise of stem cell research, our biomedical researchers need access to the best stem cell lines available.”
Tom Harkin
“I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.”
Michael Palin
