Exploration Quotes - Page 27

• Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds: errors that turn out to be true and errors that turn out to be false (which are most of them). But they both have the same character of being an imaginative speculation. I say all this because I want very much to talk about the human side of discovery and progress, and it seems to me terribly important to say this in an age in which most non-scientists are feeling a kind of loss of nerve.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Character, Loss, Two

  Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.84, Yale University Press

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• Never assume that you have attained truth. Don't make any claim to knowledge. Form no conclusion or evaluation concerning truth. The minute you do, your downfall is assured. Whenever you imagine you know something, you cease being open to the living exploration. You have closed a door and cut off the oxygen to the breathing truth.

  Mooji

  Cutting, Doors, Oxygen

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• Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all told with the author’s trademark insights into the hollows and curves of the heart and mind of a working woman who must balance the demands of motherhood, wifedom, sisterhood, and yes, the deepest cravings for artistic expression. I always love the stories PCH tells!

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Heart, Motherhood, Sisterhood

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• I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius.

  Thomas Armstrong

  Believe, Genius, Levels

  Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.60, ASCD

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• The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than
  is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal
  investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
  France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama,
  because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other
  the individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the
  province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond
  life, beyond time, into eternity.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Philosophy, Drama, Heart

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.11, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

  Greg McKeown

  Logical Reasoning, Play, Brain

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, 2014.

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• NEEMO missions are a challenging and exciting aspect of astronaut training. The research we conduct during those missions allows us to test new technologies and exploration concepts in conditions similar to the ones we'll experience in space. They are a great opportunity to help me expand my knowledge and develop new tools for future space exploration.

  Jeremy Hansen

  Technology, Opportunity, Space

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• A deep, wise, and wonderful exploration of the Vedanta path for relationships both with yourself and with others. In this book, Shubhraji provides everything you need to create healthy, fulfilling relationships, using ancient wisdom, beautiful stories, tools, and exercises. This book is a must read for those on a serious spiritual journey.

  Arielle Ford

  Beautiful, Wise, Spiritual

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• I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

  Masiela Lusha

  Children, Book, Self

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• An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Government, Korea, Technological Development

  "Korea at the turning point: innovation-based strategies for development". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb and Young-Hwan Choi, 1996.

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• Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want to have your way with it. This wrestling, sinewy and particular as its wrestler, enlarges us as we read our way into her life with its incisive insights and explorations. Can one wrestle meditatively? This author has learned the art and we are the benefactors.

  Luci Shaw

  Art, Wrestling, Want

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• 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.

  Olivier Assayas

  Thinking, Twists, Path

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.

  Seth Godin

  Hero, Discovery, Two

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.28, Penguin

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• To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moving Forward, Space, Agendas

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• Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Pioneers, Mars, Pascal

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• Exploration by real people inspires us.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, People, Inspire

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• Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

  Anthony Doerr

  Beautiful, Mean, Hands

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• [Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Beautiful, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• 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.

  Arthur Ganson

  Artist, Passionate, Scientist

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• Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do, to the benefit of us all.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Doe, Benefits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud.

  Shane Carruth

  Hate, Ideas, Stories

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• To most people in the UK, indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up US and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.

  Martin Rees

  War, Space, Europe

  "Small, cheap and a giant leap for Britain" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Understanding, Important

  "The Consolation of Philosophy". www.scientificamerican.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe the other. They believed in the rational exploration of the universe, and they also believed that there was a hidden spiritual truth. Baroque thinkers were able to live the two at the same time. In any case, for me, it's necessary to live that way also.

  Eugene Green

  Spiritual, Believe, Civilization

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a solution. I hope that my stories serve as explorations and help show readers how and why real-life women don't always make the "correct" decisions in the face of economic and sexual troubles. We all screw up, but the women I write about don't have back-up plans or money in the back or resources to fix what they have broken.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Writing, Broken, Decision

  Source: therumpus.net

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