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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. -- Ansel Adams
Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring. -- Edith Widder
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. -- Alfred de Vigny
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing. -- Robert Ballard
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. -- T. S. Eliot
For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom. -- Ernest Lawrence
Exploration is a dirty game. -- Tahir Shah
Exploration by real people inspires us. -- Stephen Hawking
Exploration is the sport of the scientist -- Auguste Piccard
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit -- Frank Borman
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. -- Frank Borman
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. -- Paul Fussell
Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond. -- Buzz Aldrin
Exploration of her body will open the doors to pleasuring her in ways she has yet to experience. -- Stephan Labossiere
Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, & to truly see that impossible is just a word. -- Richard Branson
Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see. -- Penn Jillette
We're doing it wrong, absolutely wrong! Miss Universe should be about Space Exploration, Miss World about Science and Miss Earth about Going Green! -- Manasa Rao Saarloos
The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step. -- Julia Cameron
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action. -- David Sobel
Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations. -- Seth Shostak
Exploration is a quite legitimate purpose for a journey. You have the opportunity to learn the territories of the Upper and Lower Worlds and their assets, which you can employ as needed in the future. -- Sandra Harner
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars. -- Carl Sagan
Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits. -- Cesar Pelli
Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand? -- Richard Aldington
Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources. -- Seth Shostak
Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format. -- Gene Roddenberry
'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format. -- Gene Roddenberry
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing. -- E. L. Doctorow
In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it. -- John Archibald Wheeler
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. -- E. L. Doctorow
I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration. -- Elon Musk
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -- Andre Gide
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet. -- Robert Ballard
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy! -- Craig Bruce
That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. -- Leonard Nimoy
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example. -- Hanna Rosin
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked. -- Bob Barr
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before. -- James Cameron
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. -- Thornton Wilder
Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation. -- Randy Forbes
I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable. -- Leonard Nimoy
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation. -- Charles Bukowski
I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean. -- Annabella Sciorra
I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it. -- Leroy Chiao
I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept -- Wally Schirra
I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores -- Jeff Miller
I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music. -- John Coltrane
Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond. -- Ben Parr
Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space. -- Rob Bishop
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate. -- Chaim Potok
The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold. -- Neil Peart
If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory. -- John L. Phillips
Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity. -- Neil MacGregor
My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes. -- Alton Brown
And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc. -- Duane G. Carey
The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space. -- John F. Kennedy
I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused -- Scott Bakula
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration. -- Burt Rutan
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me. -- Jane Wiedlin
Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?' -- Alison Gopnik
By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface. -- Buzz Aldrin
I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore. -- Alan G. Poindexter
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on -- Rita Dove
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time -- T. S. Eliot
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey -- John Hope Franklin
It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, we are still sitting on top of another undiscovered world beneath out feet -- Martin Dansky
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane -- R. D. Laing
Acting is constant exploration. -- Paul Guilfoyle
Every exploration is an appropriation. -- Roland Barthes
We shall not cease from exploration -- T. S. Eliot
My work became an exploration of non-intention. -- John Cage
Progress is the exploration of our own error. -- Jacob Bronowski
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. -- Elon Musk
Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship. -- Gregory Bateson
Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration. -- Bill Nye
Asmat has natural and cultural treasures that await exploration. -- Ciputra
Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration -- Jean Piaget
Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration. -- Buzz Aldrin
My work is not repetition. It is an exploration. -- Guido Molinari
Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown. -- Jordan Peterson
Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration. -- Sally Ride
There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR. -- Kenny Marchant
A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness. -- T.J. Stiles
Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain. -- Chris Hemsworth
The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration. -- Graham Hawkes
Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about. -- Story Musgrave
My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence. -- Chris Evans
I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga. -- Sting
The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise. -- David Livingstone
Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries -- Freeman Dyson
I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race. -- Anousheh Ansari
To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration. -- Rachel Pollack
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration. -- Charles Elachi
If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next? -- Anna Friel
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. -- Robert Ballard
The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles. -- Bertrand Russell
NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years. -- Robert Ballard
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp. -- Paul S. Kemp
When you're younger, you're more selfish, because there's so much self-exploration, you're in your own mind. -- Miley Cyrus
Critchley and Webster's fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded. -- Hari Kunzru
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. -- Marshall McLuhan
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance. -- Carl Sagan
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. -- Alton Tobey
Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost. -- Laini Taylor
The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration... -- Marshall McLuhan
If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling. -- Hussein Chalayan
Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy! -- Craig Bruce
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. -- Lisa Randall
As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration. -- Laura Nyro
Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration. -- Greg McKeown
Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come. -- Nichelle Nichols
For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me. -- Jack Dann

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