Exploration Quotes - Page 25

• When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

  Candice Millard

  Book, Adventure, Rivers

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• At that time, I was still in an experimental stage, trying to blend Western drawing techniques and Chinese brushwork together. It was harder for me back then... But that piece is special and important, because it represents vigilance and innocence; the kind of precious innocence only present at the beginning of a new artistic exploration.

  Liu Dan

  Drawing, Chinese, Special

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• 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.

  Jonathan Ive

  Team, Excited, Hallmark

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• When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people have never been involved in exploring the heavens, but this is not so. Ancient African empires - Mali, Songhai, Egypt - had scientists, astronomers. The fact is that space and its resources belong to all of us, not to any one group.

  Mae Jemison

  Science, Egypt, Space

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• My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

  Alexander Agassiz

  Ocean, Successful, Sea

  Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”

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• Schools in which students and teachers relate as partners-where Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication is part of every interaction are communities of learning, rather than top-down, impersonal factories. Young people begin to see school as a safe and exciting place of exploration where they can share feelings and ideas, and where each child is recognized, valued and nurtured.

  Riane Eisler

  Teacher, Children, Communication

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• We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.

  James Garner

  Ocean, Moon, Sea

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

  Jules Verne

  Curiosity, Pay, Wanted

  Jules Verne (1993). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Completely Restored and Annotated Ed.”, Naval Inst Pr

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

  Poul Anderson

  Reason, Solar System, Ifs

  Poul Anderson (2008). “The Van Rijn Method”, p.54, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability.

  Ashley Montagu

  Believe, Science, Degrees

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• Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Art, Home, Science

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the secrets of the tropical jungles have been revealed. The highest mountains of the earth have heard the voice of man. But this does not mean that the youth of the future has no new worlds to vanquish. It means only that the explorer must change his methods.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Mean, Men, Voice

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• Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.

  George Steiner

  Stars, Moon, Imagination

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• We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock.... The colors - well.... There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders are going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Rocks, Color, Interesting

  "Man Walks on Another World". National Geographic article, ngm.nationalgeographic.com. December 1969.

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• Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.

  Charles Duke

  Beautiful, Apollo, Roger

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• To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Average, Sea

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• The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.

  David M. Brown

  Mean, Littles, Rockets

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• Space is so close: It took only eight minutes to get there and twenty to get back.

  Wubbo Ockels

  Eight, Space, Twenties

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• 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.

  Donald Tusk

  Government, Research, Logistics

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Space, Apollo

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe without fear of social or political or religious reprisals.

  David Sarnoff

  Religious, Science, Men

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• I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science.

  David M. Brown

  Growing Up, Airplane, Flying

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• Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas...during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.

  Judith Rodin

  Children, Simple, Play

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• When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.

  William Beebe

  Ocean, Communication, Sea

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• Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our fishing industries, the laying of oceanic cables, the proper construction of harbor-works, oceanic commerce and navigation, as well as long-range weather forecasting, are all dependent on an understanding of the ocean.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Intelligent, Fishing

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