Exploration Quotes - Page 24

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

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Imagination, My Favorite, Margarita

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• Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mystery, Continuing, Collections

  "How We Know". Freeman Dyson's review of James Gleick's book "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood" (2011), www.nybooks.com. March 10, 2011.

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• It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications. [...] Indeed, the very suggestiveness of a notation may make it seem harder to learn because of the many properties it suggests for exploration.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Important, Pieces, May

  "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.

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• Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the surface. A review like this can provide little more than an overview. A detailed exploration of the movie, its style, and its mysteries requires dedication that only someone immersed in Blade Runner lore can provide.

  James Berardinelli

  Dedication, Blade Runner, Style

  Review of "Blade Runner", www.reelviews.net. 1982.

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

  George Brecht

  Art, Mysterious, Results

  George Brecht, Onnasch Galerie (New York, N.Y.) (1973). “George Brecht, works 1957-1973: Onnasch Galerie, New York, November 1973 ...”

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• ...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Mean, Voice

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• Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space Flight, Vision, Century

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• the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Thinking, Government

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• In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of human nature.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Issues, Curiosity

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.171, Oxford University Press

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• The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.

  Tom DeLay

  Cells, Research, Benefits

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• Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can ponder it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life.

  Roger Scruton

  Loss, Emotional, Addiction

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• My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.

  Alan Lightman

  Writing, Thinking, Creating

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• How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children.... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get?

  Martin Amis

  Children, Class, Car

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• I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

  Fred Hoyle

  Believe, Moon, Financial

  "Galaxies, Nuclei, and Quasars". Book by Fred Hoyle, 1965.

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• We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

  Brian Greene

  Cosmos, Eras, Spirit

  "Is our universe the only universe?". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.

  Chet Raymo

  Beautiful, Eye, Night

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• For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice... No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.

  Wilfred Thesiger

  Writing, Heart, Sacrifice

  Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.236, Penguin

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• It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.

  Vanna Bonta

  Thinking, Humanity, Earth

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space", August 1, 2006.

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• LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

  Stanislav Grof

  Powerful, Unique, Personality

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

  Abraham Pais

  Numbers, Fancy, Passing

  "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 45), 1988.

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

  Bette Midler

  Friends, Emotional, Kind

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• The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of inner space. Through their meditative journeys and explorations, they discovered many secret astral passageways that led to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Journey, Space

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with content; be a formalist exploration; and operate on some, metaphor is not the right word but, resonant level.

  Stephen Shore

  Art, Mean, Levels

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• 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.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Believe, Punishment

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• Pioneering don't pay.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Pay, Pioneering

  Andrew Carnegie (1992). “The Andrew Carnegie reader”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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