Exploration Quotes

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

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

Yoga is not just repetition of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.

If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

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.

Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.

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

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.

Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.

The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

As a cornerstone of my policy, we will substantially expand public-private partnerships to maximize the amount of investment and funding that is available for space exploration and development.

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.

I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation.

Mysticism is the hidden way. It is the most difficult to discuss, because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are difficult to describe in words.

Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.

As we become multi sensory, we move beyond the limitations of the five senses and we now are evolving to a different mechanism in the exploration of physical reality.

The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

My work became an exploration of non-intention.

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

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.

I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets.

Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much.

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.