#exploration

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#experience #exploration #form #found #gathered

Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, 'When I grow up I will go there.' The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven't been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamour's off. Other places were scattered about the hemispheres. I have been in some of them, and ... well, we won't talk about that. But there was one yet — the biggest, the most blank, so to speak — that I had a hankering after. True, by this time it was not a blank space any more. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery — a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#maps #dreams

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#exploration #investigation #live #movements #sources

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

#atom #depths #efforts #exploration #farther

Acting is constant exploration. ↗

— Paul Guilfoyle

#constant #exploration

I am just going outside and may be some time." Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12. ↗

— Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates

#courageous #exploration #polar #sacrifice #courage

In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#solar-system #respect

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#self

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#changed #expansion #exploration #got #history

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games. ↗

— Mike Wilson

#ashamed #blasting #circus #creatures #current