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• To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes.

  Henry Joy McCracken

  Being Strong, Mistake, Discovery

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• The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.

  Tsung-Dao Lee

  Nature, Science, Progress

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• Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Summer, Believe, Book

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• How do I work? I grope.

  Albert Einstein

  Work

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• I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

  Anne Heche

  Fear, Blessed, Journey

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• Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative, as a brief for postmodernism. The advance, while opening new avenues of expression and liberating deep pools of talent, has not exploded human nature into little pieces. Instead, it has set the stage for a fuller exploration of the universal traits that unite humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Expression, Voice, Feminist

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• For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

  Anne Bancroft

  Heart, Journey, Fiber

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• Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.

  Nichelle Nichols

  Space, Benefits, Earth

  "Star Trek legend who became NASA's 'secret weapon'". Interview with Sheena McKenzie, www.sgutranscripts.org. August 25, 2014.

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• The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making sure they spend enough time exploring before locking themselves into a design approach.

  Jared Spool

  Moving, Design, Enough Time

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• America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Hope, Men, Discovery

  The Oxford History of the American People ch. 2 (1965)

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• It's exciting and encouraging that the spirit of exploration is alive and that students see it occurring in their lifetime. These may well be the children that make it a reality.

  Orlando Figueroa

  Children, Reality, Alive

  "Poll: Kids look forward to rock climbing on Mars" By Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2002.

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

  Robert Browning

  Science, Men, Research

  Robert Browning (1915). “The poetical works of Robert Browning”

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• The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

  Orson Scott Card

  Science, Keys, Doors

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.97, Macmillan

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• As we become multi sensory,
  we move beyond the limitations of the five senses
  and we now are evolving to a different mechanism
  in the exploration of physical reality.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Reality, Five Senses

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• The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Acceptance, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

  Burt Rutan

  Kids, Technology, Phones

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• There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Mean, Cells, Drug

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and of the world, it is of the highest importance that this borderland should be thoroughly explored.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Lying, Communication, Science

  Heinrich Hertz (1896). “Miscellaneous Papers”

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Infinite, Brainstorming

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology with the Large Hadron Collider because we want to have a window on creation, we want to recreate a tiny piece of Genesis to unlock some of the greatest secrets of the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Science, Europe, Secret

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• There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Men, Noses

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• What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Science, Reality

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• But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.

  Marvin Minsky

  Science, Discovery, Astrology

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• Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school.

  Irving Langmuir

  Book, Teaching, School

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