992+ Best Explore Quotes About Exploring & Exploration

Embarking on a journey into the wild unknown, the realm of exploration has always fueled the human spirit with an insatiable curiosity. From the uncharted territories of distant lands to the unexplored recesses of our own minds, the essence of adventure & exploration is woven into the very fabric of our existence. As we traverse the landscapes of discovery and explore quotes of description, we find solace and inspiration in the timeless words of those who dared to push the boundaries of the known. Join us on a literary expedition as we unveil the best quotes about exploring and exploration, encapsulating the essence of wanderlust and the relentless pursuit of the extraordinary.

992+ Best Explore Quotes About Exploring & Exploration

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam – My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
Aaron Koblin – My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
Adam Braun – Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble – we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.
Aditi Rao Hydari – If I believe that I have done it all, there’s nothing more for me to learn and explore.
Aja Naomi King – I’m at a place where I want to have fun. I want to be challenged. I want to love the people I work with and continue to appreciate being in the position to work and play and explore.
Alan G. Poindexter – 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 Guth – If there’s no limit to how big the entropy can get, then you can start anywhere, and from that starting point, you’d expect entropy to rise as the system moves to explore larger and larger regions of phase space.
Alan Stern – It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we’ve invested our time and treasure in building a machine that can fly across three billion miles of space to explore the Pluto system.
Alan Stern – This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.
Albert Einstein – I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – I have to have the wheel. It’s given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.
Alesha Dixon – As much as I love beach holidays, I do really like to get out and about and explore… I get itchy feet if I stay still too long in one place when I’m abroad.
Alexander Lowen – Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.
Alexander Pope – The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexandra Daddario – I never know what’s going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I’ve found with the opportunities that I’ve been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.
Alfred de Vigny – 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 Nobel – Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
Allu Arjun – I feel I haven’t been used to the fullest of my potential. There are so many genres to explore and diverse subjects to work on.
Allu Arjun – I would love to explore my options in Tamil as well as Malayalam.
Ally Walker – I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.
Alton Tobey – I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
Amitava Kumar – Writing gives me the license to go, explore, and learn about the world.
Amyra Dastur – When I am not working, I love travelling, especially solo trips where I can pack my bag and go somewhere and explore new food, culture, and people.
Ana Ivanovic – I do miss competition, but I get to travel a little bit on my own terms, which is a little bit different. And I get the chance to walk around, explore, and not have to save my energy for the match days.
Anand Mahindra – Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.
Andre Gide – One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Andrea Bocelli – A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country had a very special atmosphere. I was there to perform, but it was one of the few places that I’ve visited over the years that I had some free time to explore, and I was hugely impressed by all the religious history there.
Andrea Bocelli – I’ve been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there’s so little time before and after performances to explore where I’m visiting.
Andrew Carnegie – Pioneering don’t pay.
Andy Muschietti – Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. ‘It’ has been on Earth for millions of years. He’s been in contact with humans for hundreds of years, every 27 years. So you can imagine the amount of material.
Angela Ahrendts – The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
Anita Hassanandani – Reddy I was game to explore a new language and said yes.
Anna Deavere Smith – You are an explorer… you are after something that does not yet exist.
Annabella Sciorra – 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.
Ann Bancroft – For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart.
Anne Heche – I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.
Anne Rice – I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests, the fields, the flowers. I love the mysteries of evolution and dna and the big bang. I want to know the majesties of the Lord’s Creation. I cannot close my eyes to all this. I cannot turn away from science and scientific exploration.
Anousheh Ansari – I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.
Ansel Adams – In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Anthony Lawlor – We might as well give in to the tug of our spirits to explore this confounding and wondrous world. We might as well greet each other as endless pilgrims and bid each other well on our way. Because we’re already on the road.
Antoine Fuqua – I just think you can’t shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard – Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore…. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin’s egg.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard – Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
Arjuna Ardagh – What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.
Arthur C. Clarke – Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It’s time to strike out anew….Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years….The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won’t be humans anymore. I’ve seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology….The next step is in space. It’s inevitable.
Arthur C. Clarke – The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
Arthur Conan Doyle – When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.
Ashley Bryan – There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration.
Ashley Montagu – 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 Roberts – I love to explore and see new places.
Aslaug Magnusdottir – As I have written before, one of my favorite parts of my job as CEO of Moda Operandi is the opportunity I get to explore international fashion scenes to discover new talent, and then being able to introduce these designers to our community of fashion-savvy customers worldwide.
Astro Teller – If you want to explore things you haven’t explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee – India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.
August Wilson – I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.
Auguste Piccard – Exploration is the sport of the scientist.

B.K.S. Iyengar – As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
Barbara Fredrickson – Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.
Barbara Sukowa – We really love to learn and explore things.
Baron Vaughn – What I am trying to do is create a space for people to explore what they want to be, as opposed to fit into a label that they have been given.
Barry Levinson – You need to be open and explore while heading where you want to go. You can never be too in love with your own ideas.
Ben Parr – 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 Saunders – Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004… I said ‘no,’ it’s still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.
Ben Saunders – I don’t think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.
Benjamin Alire Saenz – Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.
Bertrand Piccard – My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean… For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
Bertrand Piccard – Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life.
Bertrand Russell – The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one’s interests and the overcoming of obstacles.
Beth Ditto – As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there’s a great big world to explore out there.
Bill Mumy – I get bored doing one thing only. I’ve been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don’t see why I won’t continue on that path.
Bill Nye – Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
Bill Nye – When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
Bill Smith – Whether taking a shorter seven-day jaunt or combining several unique cruises to create the ultimate European exploration, luxury travelers will enjoy the grandeur of Europe and the warmth and luxury of the Crystal experience.
Bill Stone – If you don’t come home with data, you’ve done nothing.
Bill Stone – There are plenty of people on Earth. It’s not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don’t come back. Exploration is dangerous.
Billy Dee Williams – It’s in our nature. We need to explore and find out what’s going on outside of who we are.
Bjorn Ulvaeus – There are still many places I haven’t seen that I’d like to travel to. I’ve never seen the Pyramids, and I’d love to explore the culture in North India. I think walking in the Andes would also be awesome.
Bob Iger – I have this lust for the so-called South Seas. I would like to explore every corner of the Pacific. You know the song: ‘To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season.’ It’s just time.
Brad Feld – We should explore ways to make us a more amazing species. A more fascinating society. We should embrace our innovations and evolve with them.
Brad Pitt – I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.
Brian Bates – We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the sacred world could be apprehended. The tree was the framework within which one “flew” to these Otherworlds. And since the exploration of sacred space was also a quest into the nature of human consciousness, the tree was regarded as an image of the ways in which we, humans, are constructed psychically. It was a natural model for our deepest wisdom, our highest aspirations.
Brian Blessed – I’m a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!
Brian Blessed – When I was a child, I wanted to… go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America – I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don’t accept it.
Brian Cox – An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.
Brian Greene – A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
Brian Greene – 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.
Brian Schmidt – I think a scientist’s job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know – why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it’s like art, it’s like umm, music, it’s aesthetics, it’s like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.
Brian Skerry – I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists.
Bruce Mau – Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.
Burt Rutan – In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
Burt Rutan – It’s not good enough for us to have generations of kids that … look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.
Burt Rutan – 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.
Buzz Aldrin – 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 – Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what’s beyond.
Buzz Aldrin – Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
Buzz Aldrin – Globalization means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don’t ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
Buzz Aldrin – Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
Buzz Aldrin – I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.
Buzz Aldrin – In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration — be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or whatever seems appropriate. We’ve got millions and millions of people who want to go into space, who are willing to pay. When you figure in the payload potential of customers, everything changes.
Buzz Aldrin – Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it’s actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.
Buzz Aldrin – 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.
Buzz Aldrin – Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.
Buzz Aldrin – Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we’re going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.
Buzz Aldrin – 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.
Buzz Aldrin – The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire.
Buzz Aldrin – This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. We feel this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
Buzz Aldrin – To move forward, what’s required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

C. W. Ceram – Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline and moderation. Explorations among the ruins of the remote past have carried curious men all over the face of the earth… Yet in truth, no science is more adventurous than archaeology, if adventure is thought of as a mixture of spirit and deed.
C. Wright Mills – In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of human nature.
Candice Accola – I’m more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures.
Cara Delevingne – I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.
Carl Sagan – 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 – It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.
Carl Sagan – Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
Carl Sagan – We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.
Carl Sagan – We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.
Caroline Alexander – The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns – these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century
Caroline Flack – I went to Tokyo when I was a child, but there’s still so much of the country I’d like to explore.
Carolyn Chute – Every time I think I know what’s right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, ‘What would this person do in this situation?’ and I write it down. I’m not writing manifestos of my political views.
Carrie-Anne Moss – I like stories about the world, where we’re at. I like to explore humanity. I like to explore my own humanity.
Catherine McCormack – I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I’d like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I’ll get to do just that.
Cesar Pelli – 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.
Chad Hugo – I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.
Charles Bolden – As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on a world beyond our own. Besides being one of America’s greatest explorers, Neil carried himself with a grace and humility that was an example to us all. When President Kennedy challenged the nation to send a human to the moon, Neil Armstrong accepted without reservation. As we enter this next era of space exploration, we do so standing on the shoulders of Neil Armstrong.
Charles Bowers – A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person’s brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today’s glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.
Charles Dallara – We remain open to explore options on a voluntary approach built on a realistic outlook…
Charles Darwin – I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
Charles Duke – Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.
Charles Duke – Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You’ve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot.
Charles Elachi – Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration.
Charles Hazlewood – I free-form it, rock n’ roll it. I’m a creature of risk, so I don’t know how I’m going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I’m doing it.
Charles Krauthammer – As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy – a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence.
Charles Petzold – I really liked figuring things out on my own… I would explore it, I would try out various things, I would see what worked, I would see what didn’t work.
Charles Sturt – Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.
Charlie Kaufman – I have something I’m interested in and then I decide I’m going to explore it.
Charlie Kaufman – I’m interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life…
Charlotte Rampling – I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.
Charlotte Sophia Kasl – Listen to your beliefs, think about how you learned them, and realize that they are not genetic, nor are they the “only way.” You are free to acquire new perspectives, to absorb new ideas, and to question everything you were taught to believe. As your mind opens to exploration and change, you’ll feel a new lightness and more joy.
Chelsea Manning – I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world – vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.
Chet Raymo – Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind’s eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images… The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God’s glory.
Chloe Kim – I’ve flown from Aspen and then to Switzerland the next day and then off again the day after. That’s the thing I love most about snowboarding, honestly – getting to travel and explore different places and meet people.
Chris Chibnall – “Doctor Who” is such a broad show. It’s got the whole universe to explore.
Chris Cleave There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
Chris Evans – I love acting. It’s my playground; it lets me explore.
Chris Hemsworth – I like to explore things.
Chris Pine – I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because life is defined by struggle, it’s kind of the perfect microcosmic experience to explore that. ‘Here we are, struggling.’ It’s about people persevering and persevering and persevering.
Christian Louboutin – It is a great thing to be at your age… You are at a very specific time of age … an age where you can follow all your dreams. But also at an age when you can change-you can change your dreams, you can change paths. When you start something when you’re young, you should not decide ‘this is it, this is my way and I will go all the way.’ You have the age where you can change. You get experience, and maybe dislike it and go another way. Your age is still an age of exploration.
Christina Aguilera – I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what’s really on my mind.
Christopher Columbus – I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.
Christopher Columbus – I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.
Christopher Columbus – I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
Christopher Columbus – I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.
Christopher Columbus – Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
Christopher McCandless – I now walk into the wild.
Christopher McDowell – Lead us on a philosophical and spiritual exploration that is nothing less than a journey into the depths of our own sacredness and the sacredness of all beings. After all, there must be something more mystical beyond the garden gate, something that satisfies the soul’s attraction to beauty, peace, solace, and celebration.
Christopher Rouse – If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey – because that’s where the truth lives – and you can do that in an objective way and allow people to take from that what they will, I think it’s a satisfying sweet spot with storytelling.
Chuck Palahniuk – I know that I’m going to die and that you’re going to die. I can’t do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.
Chuck Palahniuk – When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
Claire Messud – This sense in which so much of who we are doesn’t break the surface – our knowability to one another is always something I like to explore.
Claude Nicollier – The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.
Clive Owen – I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.
Colin Farrell – You know. I’ll try anything. I’ll do anything. I’ll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.
Colin Wilson – The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one’s own potentialities.
Conrad Anker – It’s our human nature to explore. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species walked out of Africa, traveling far and wide across the entire planet, from the Arctic to the tip of Tierra Del Fuego, making us the most geographically diversified species on Earth.
Corbin Bernsen – I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.
Cornelia Parker – You don’t have to have angst to be an artist, but it’s grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions.
Craig Reucassel – Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!
Criss Jami – To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.
Cynthia Rowley – I’ve been lucky enough to meet a lot of fantastic people, from royalty to rock stars. I’ve also been known to be a bit of a daredevil, so I’ve tried to explore extreme travel and adventure – scuba-diving in an arctic glacier and camping in the Himalayas.

Daisaku Ikeda – How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness.
Dale Dauten – Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.
Dan Brown – 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.
Dan Eldon – To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the flesh or otherwise) horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Select your team with care, but when in doubt, take on some new crew and give them a chance. But avoid at all costs fluctuations of sincerity with your best people.
Dan Futterman – I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
Dan Gilroy – All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it’s wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they’re not. It’s interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
Dan Lipinski – As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country’s energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.
Dan Simmons – Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.
Dan Smith – I would rather explore interesting stories.
Dana Rohrabacher – I believe we can do more in making the President’s vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.
Dane Cook – I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
Dani Alves – In life, we should explore options outside our comfort zone.
Daniel Barber – I’m happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
Daniel Boone – Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
Daniel Boone – I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
Daniel Boone – We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
Daniel Day-Lewis – You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you’re suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
Daniel Dennett – What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
Daniel J. Boorstin – The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.
Daniel J. Boorstin – The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Radcliffe – To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.
Daniel Suarez – I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading.
Danielle Macdonald – You get to explore all different parts of yourself.
Darell Hammond – Aaah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.
Darell Hammond – In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children’s curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore – in short, to play.
Darell Hammond – Sendak’s 1963 classic ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.
Daryl Davis – I wanted to visit India because I have always wanted to explore the country. More than that, I have always found the caste system in India identical to the racism in the United States.
Dave Barry – The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.
David Almond – You read the first word and you’re off on a journey of exploration and discovery.
David Antin – I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
David Brooks – 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.
David Cage – We want to continue to explore new possibilities regarding interface and interaction. We experiment different solutions to make interface an important component for immersion rather than just a remote control.
David Coverdale – I would hope it’s better, but I’m actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I’ve been given.
David E. Goldberg – Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
David Eagleman – I’m using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human – it turns out that it’s a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
David Eagleman – Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story (say, a man with a beard on a cloud) is true or not true. But with Possibilianism I’m hoping to define a new position – one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities. Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind; it is not interested in committing to any particular story.
David Gross – Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve – much as the effort to explore the earth ran out of new continents to explore.
David Harbour – My natural state is a state of an explorer – a performer, but someone who wants to explore their experience and reflect on their experience more than just lie on the beach. Even when I go on vacations, I get stressed out if I’m at the beach for, like, two days. I’m like, ‘Can’t we do something? I can’t just sit there.’
David Helvarg – We tend to think of America’s days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that’s because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.
David Livingstone – I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.
David Livingstone – I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.
David Livingstone – Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
David Lowery – With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth… they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.
David Roochnik – First and foremost, note that Plato always wrote dialogues, and never attempted to produce a theoretical or scientific treatise. This is a big clue for me. From beginning to end, Plato was aware of the limits of theoretical and technical reasoning, and his dialogues are a massive exploration.
David Sarnoff – 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 Seltzer – I think it’s time to explore our relationship to the hereafter and the now and determine whether or not there is a part mankind can play at this time to forestall the nuclear bubble breaking and the world coming to an end.
David Sobel – 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 Stoddart – Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years… has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.
David Wallace – Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
Davy Crockett – For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don’t think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.
Dean Geyer – I want to explore different things.
Dean Koontz – Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.
Deanna Raybourn – Among my favorite half-dozen topics is the field of Victorian female explorers, the intrepid women who packed up their parasols and petticoats and roamed the world in search of adventure. Some were scientists, some artists, some unabashed curiosity-seekers who simply went out to see what they could see.
Deborah Bull – This was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.
Debra Granik – It’s just that it takes time to explore complexity.
Debra Granik – The fact is you are allowed to more carefully select and curate what it is you’re going to explore.
Diane Ackerman – The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.
Dierks Bentley – As an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.
Dierks Bentley – You get to explore stuff.
Dilshad Vadsaria – So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I’m quite content.
Dimitar Sasselov – 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.
Diplo – That’s the model I want to explore.
Donald Griffin – I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough to make it a sort of adventure and exploration to see what they were doing.
Donald Johanson – And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn’t have answers. In fact, where we didn’t even know the right questions to ask.
Donald Trump – 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.
Donald Trump – My plan also includes major investments in space exploration, also right here.
Donovan – I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead.
Doug Aitken – In our daily lives, we see ourselves often in very reductive ways. I want to explore motion, change and flux, whether we are looking in the mirror or seeing ourselves in our surroundings. The singular view of self contradicts the act of living.
Douglas Coupland – I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.
Douglas McCulloh – Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism – the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.
Duane G. Carey – 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 – I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn’t reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn’t reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.
Duane G. Carey – So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

E. L. Doctorow – Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. O. Wilson – That’s the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home – these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.
E. O. Wilson – The advance, while opening new avenues of expression and liberating deep pools of talent, has not exploded human nature into little pieces. Instead, it has set the stage for a fuller exploration of the universal traits that unite humanity.
Ed Paschke – Life is very much about rule breaking, about confrontation. Otherwise history would just stand still. Someone has to come along and break the rules and try for whatever reason to go about things a different way. Even if it is a simple sense of adventure, a sense of exploration. You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.
Edgar Mitchell – Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has seen the unprecedented development and proliferation of magnificent technologies. Many of them, through design, ignorance, or misuse, are capable of destroying life as well as enhancing it. Space exploration alone holds the promise of eventual escape from a dying planet, provided we wisely manage our resources in the meantime and actually survive that long.
Edi Gathegi – I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don’t get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.
Edith Widder – Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let’s all go exploring.
Edith Widder – One of the things that’s frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
Edmund Hillary – Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.
Edmund Hillary – I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
Edmund Hillary – No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
Edmund Hillary – On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Edmund Hillary – People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
Edmund Hillary – The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
Edward Abbey – Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Bond – We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.
Edward Burtynsky – Water, like many other resources is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.
Edward Forbes – It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water …. That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe.
Edward Forbes – Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our United Kingdom appertains.
Edward Forbes – Paleontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.
Edward M. Lerner – I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
Edward Ruscha – I didn’t realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that… but that’s what it did.
Edward Snowden – I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.
Edward Steichen – He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings.
Edward Witten – As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
Edward Witten – If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They’re part of nature. We don’t really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways.
Edwin Land – [The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration.
Edwin Powell Hubble – Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Eileen Collins – Some people said, “we don’t want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don’t feel that way. We fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don’t stop flying because we have accidents.
El Greco – Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
Elaine Cassidy – I choose jobs quite selfishly. I do them for me and the exploration you get to go on with a character.
Eleanor Roosevelt – The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eliza Coupe – I want to explore that right now.
Elizabeth Debicki – You can explore something deeply and discard it if it’s not working.
Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey – For centuries, cultures throughout the world have used indigenous technologies to navigate life’s complexities. From navigator-priests in Micronesia to mystics in India, vast sums of knowledge are available if we but recognize it.
Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey – True navigation begins in the human heart. It’s the most important map of all.
Ellen Page – I’m doing this really awesome exploration, and it’s like a drug, because I completely disappear.
Ellen Stofan – Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.
Ellen Stofan – When we go to explore, we do it as a globe.
Ellison Onizuka – Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.
Elon Musk – America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
Elon Musk – I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
Emilie de Ravin – I really want to explore every genre that I can.
Enric Sala – When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
Eric B. – Everyone just has different things in their life they want to do. I wanted to clean up my bucket list, explore the world. Rap was our gateway into anything we wanted to do.
Eric Liu – We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
Erin Morgenstern – I go back and forth between input phases where I’m reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I’ll get back into output mode and write and write and write.
Erin Morgenstern – I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn’t just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.
Erin O’Connor – Here, there’s a different flow. You are left to explore, and individuality is key.
Ernest Lawrence – 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 Shackleton – After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
Ernest Shackleton – I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
Ernest Shackleton – Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last… to the North Pole.
Ernest Shackleton – Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
Ernest Shackleton – The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
Ernest Shackleton – We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
Eugene Green – 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 H. Peterson – The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are experienced
Eugenie Clark – I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath longer now and could go down almost as deep without the helmet which limited my movements.
Evelyn Glennie – Once you’re in a particular country, and you’re surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
Evelyn Glennie – There are many collaborations I’d like to explore.
Ezra Pound – I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

F. R. Scott – I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.
F. Scott Fitzgerald – 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.
Fabien Cousteau – Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather’s work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.
Falk Hentschel – I love trying new stuff. Now I’m loving archery, and I surf. I just like to explore new things, I guess. I’m a big kid!
Felicity Jones – I’m free to explore.
Florentijn Hofman – I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.
Flula Borg – I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: ‘Make It Real.’
Flume – That’s an area that I like to explore a lot.
Forest Whitaker – I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes.
Francisco Costa – Milan, for me, is a city of discovery. You can find some amazing gardens behind some great houses; I also love finding beautiful galleries and incredible shops, but you have to explore. And the food is amazing.
Frank Borman – Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
Frank Herbert – If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.
Frank Herbert – Once human beings realize something can be done, they’re not satisfied until they’ve done it.
Frank Oppenheimer – Many people who talk about the discovery method of teaching are really talking about arranging a lesson or an experiment so that students discover what they are supposed to discover. That is not an exploration. The whole tradition of exploration is being lost for entire generations.
Frank Pittman – Each generation’s job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation’s system of values for a new age.
Franklin Chang Diaz – For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion is essentially like the horse-and-cart approach to the exploration of the American West, instead of the steamboat or the railroad.
Fred Wilson – We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.
Frederick Lenz – I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation.
Frederick Lenz – 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.
Frederick Lenz – Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz – The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of inner space. Through their meditative journeys and explorations, they discovered many secret astral passageways that led to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions.
Freeman Dyson – The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
Fridtjof Nansen – Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.
Fridtjof Nansen – Never stop because you are afraid – you are never so likely to be wrong.
Fridtjof Nansen – The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Gabrielle Reece – My kids that’s their backyard. I think when they’re adults, their memories will be mostly of spending time at beach, the exploration, the freedom that you have. You take care of your house that you live in and we make our bed and we clean our cars and we do all that stuff, but yet we neglect sort of the place that really provides us with the greatest form of sustainability, which is the ocean.
Gaby Hoffmann – I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
Gad Saad – Consumer behaviour is a powerful realm from which to explore our biological heritage.
Gad Saad – To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop.
Gail Simone – The trick is to make that backstory seem like something compelling that they will want to explore rather than an obstacle course they have to crawl through to get to the story.
Garry Kasparov – Machines taking over jobs – it’s the history of civilization. Replacing farm animals, old forms of manual labor, now taking over small, menial aspects of cognition. But there’s still plenty of room for creativity, for curiosity – many things that are related to passion, like art. But also, things about human communication and challenges, massive challenges that we left behind because we didn’t want to take so much risk, such as space exploration, deep ocean exploration.
Garry Kasparov – Many so-called pragmatists want nothing to do with space exploration or other kinds of ambitious endeavors that don’t have a clear payoff. This mentality is hugely damaging to our success as a civilization. Our desire to understand the universe is kindled by curiosity and wonder, and this has fueled countless scientific breakthroughs.
Garry Kasparov – Young people, especially young men due to culture and perhaps testosterone, dream about changing the world, making an impact, doing big things. Now our young people are told life was better in the past, that we should be less ambitious and hold on to what we have. The grand narratives of exploration and change that drove the world forward for a century have been tamed.
Gary Zukav – 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.
Gautam Singhania – I don’t think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That’s a shame!
Gavin Creel – It’s exhilarating to be able to explore my own voice.
Gavin Hood – How many themes can you effectively explore?
Gavin MacLeod – We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we’ve got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.
Gene Cernan – After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.
Gene Cernan – Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.
Gene Cernan – Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We’ve got to be willing to take it.
Gene Cernan – I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.
Gene Cernan – It’s our destiny to explore. It’s our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
Gene Cernan – Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.
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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg – The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard them immediately on this account. For every hypothesis which once was sound was useful for thinking of previous phenomena in the proper interrelations and for keeping them in context. We ought to set down contradictory experiences separately, until enough have accumulated to make building a new structure worthwhile.
George Blagden – I’ve always wanted to explore North America. I drive a motorbike and have always wanted to spend a couple of months exploring the continent on two wheels.
George Brecht – My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.
George Eads – Allow me to explore another direction to go until we’re all comfortable with what we are doing.
George Ellery Hale – Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men of science, have felt the lure of the uncharted seas of space, and through their provision of instrumental means the sphere of exploration has made new discoveries and brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens.
George Leonard – It’s fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical quality called vibrato. This pulsation that wells up within the sounded note can lead us to what is most spontaneous and creative in human life, and possibly even to deeper mysteries–to powers of knowing and doing which we have lost or given away during the epoch of civilization, and which perhaps we may now regain.
George Lucas – I have a strong feeling about interesting people in space exploration. . . . And the only way it’s going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space.
George Steiner – 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 Vancouver – Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
George Vancouver – The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.
George W. Bush – We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.
Georgia O’Keeffe – I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
Gil Bellows – There are a lot of things that I’m excited to explore.
Gillian Flynn – Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self.
Gillian Jacobs – I’ve gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time… that’s a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.
Glenn Greenwald – Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it’s the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It’s the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being.
Grace Potter – With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore, you wouldn’t think I was locked up in my own mind, but I was.
Graham Hancock – We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human? By demonstrating and persecuting whole areas of consciousness, we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.
Graham Hawkes – The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.
Greg McKeown – Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.
Greg Wise – It’s good to explore your darkness.
Gregory Bateson – Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.
Gregory Porter – I like to absorb the atmosphere and explore wherever I’m working or visiting, so I can’t say there’s any type of place I don’t like. When you travel you have to be open to new experiences.
Guido Molinari – My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.
Gus Grissom – If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
Guy Finley – What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?
Guy Laliberte – We’re not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We’re adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that’s what stimulates us.

H. G. Wells – The choice is: the Universe…or nothing.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. – Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. L. Mencken – The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. … A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.
Halsey – I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can’t explore the city because there’s, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.
Hamish Bowles – I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.
Hamish Bowles – This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we’d scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we’d leap out and go and explore.
Hank Azaria – I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
Hanna Rosin – NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
Hannah Bronfman – If you want to achieve something, you’re going to run into roadblocks, but you have to learn how to pivot and explore your options.
Harold Urey – The space program is not only scientific in purpose but also is an expression of man’s insistent determination to do the nearly impossible – to explore the unknown, even at great risk.
Harrison Ford – I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
Harry Johnston – As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.
Harry Johnston – Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
Harry Johnston – Long after this wonderful event in the Earth’s history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.
Harry Johnston – Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.
Heinrich Hertz – Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and of the world, it is of the highest importance that this borderland should be thoroughly explored.
Heinz Pagels – Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.
Heinz Pagels – The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.
Helen Keller – It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.
Helen Mirren – Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I’m filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.
Helena Christensen – The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there’s a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
Helge Ingstad – It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn’t use that kind of buildings and houses.
Henri Bergson – The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
Henry David Thoreau – Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau – So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.
Henry David Thoreau – The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more than their contemporaries dreamed of, or even themselves discovered, that is, when they were in a frame of mind fitted to behold the truth. Referred to the world’s standard, they are always insane. Even savages have indirectly surmised as much.
Henry David Thoreau – We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
Henry David Thoreau – What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.
Henry David Thoreau – Where is the “unexplored land” but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place–London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard–is “unexplored land,” to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.
Henry Golding – There’s so many places, personally, that I would love as a film fan to explore.
Henry Hopper – I’ve been doing some exploration of the inner space.
Henry Joy McCracken – To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes.
Herbie Hancock – I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, ’cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore.
Hidetoshi Nakata – I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel…
Hudson Stuck – Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains – since it is the fashion to name glaciers.
Hudson Stuck – Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska’s great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
Hunter Schafer – It’s something I’d like to explore more.

Ian Somerhalder – To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives… not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.
Ilan Stavans – I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit.
Ilana Mercer – Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital – people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.
Imani Hakim – I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That’s where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
Imran Amed – Maybe I didn’t listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
Irving Langmuir – Train yourselves. Don’t wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school.
Isaac Asimov – There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?
Isabel Allende – Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.
Isabel Allende – I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.
Isabel Yosito – We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks.
Isidor Isaac Rabi – The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman.
Iskra Lawrence – For me, I feel empowered when I use my body to exercise, play sports, and explore the world. My body allows me to sing, dance, talk, feel – and eat a damn good piece of cheesecake.
Issey Miyake – I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve.
Ivanka Trump – Your post-college years should be an exploratory time in your professional life… Keep an open mind, and don’t expect to get everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to start over once or twice.

J. K. Simmons – We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.
J. R. R. Tolkien – Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
J. William Fulbright – We must dare to think ‘unthinkable’ thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
Jack Dann – Most of the time, I’m surprised where the journey takes me.
Jack Lowden – There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It’s just about finding new ways of telling them.
Jack Palance – One of the most important reasons for living is to do something – live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete… Awaken your creative sensitivities!
Jackie Shroff – Tiger is free to explore the world himself. He is a man whose persona is totally different from what I had during my initial days. There can’t be any comparison between the two of us, since he is absolutely different.
Jacob Bronowski – 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 – The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations – more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
Jacob Collier – The way my brain works, it created me thirsty. From the off, I was a sponge for information that had emotional connotations, I think that was it. I was brought up to see the world as emotional, and anything that I could get my hands on that helped me explore that emotional stuff, I was fascinated by.
Jacob Needleman – As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the meaning of God lay in this direction. At the same time, these undeniable experiences lit up and were in turn illuminated by all the philosophical and historical knowledge I had by then amassed and I began to understand in an entirely new way the teachings of both Judaism and Christianity as well as the teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.
Jacques Cartier – I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
Jacques Cousteau – Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction – up, down, sideways – by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.
Jacques Cousteau – The future is in the hands of those who explore… and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.
Jacques Cousteau – What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
Jacques Cousteau – When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.
Jadon Sancho – I just want to show other young kids growing up that it is not about just staying in England, getting loans. Explore.
Jaggi Vasudev – The purpose of life is to explore one’s own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.
James A. Baldwin – Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
James A. Michener – We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will manifest itself. A nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. The sense of exploration is intimately bound up with human resolve, and for a nation to believe that it is still committed to a forward motion is to ensure its continuance.
James Cameron – But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration – because it’s a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks.
James Cook – Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
James Cook – Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
James Garner – We know what the surface of the moon better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.
James Lovelock – We’d never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn’t been for space exploration and NASA.
James Theodore Bent – In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.
James Van Allen – I’m one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
James Watkins – We haven’t even begun to explore the Middle East or Africa or even South America in detail. One of our ambitions would be to drop into some of these other places and, by doing so, bring the audience into a world that they wouldn’t necessarily have been in.
Jamie Hyneman – As it turns out, one of the biggest choices we have doing the show is deciding the tangents we are allowed to take, the stuff that we see along the way. We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
Jamie Hyneman – Now that I’m not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.
Jamie Hyneman – Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.
Jane Wiedlin – 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.
Janet Fitch – So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.
Janet McTeer – It’s your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can…
Janet Reno – I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.
Jared Spool – The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making sure they spend enough time exploring before locking themselves into a design approach.
Jason Lutes – It’s an exploration for me…
Jason Mraz – I love getting to bounce around and explore so much. I love Scandinavia. I love Spain. It’s so mystical and romantic, yet it’s gritty.
Jawaharlal Nehru – We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jay Wright Forrester – I believe babies are born as innovative personalities… But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.
Jean Batten – Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.
Jean Houston – We needed a “psychenaut” program to be the opposite of the astronaut program in order to explore the enormous domains and dimensions of inner space. We need inner space exploration. We need to have access to more capacities in order to be adequate stewards of this most incredible process of transformation in human history.
Jean Piaget – Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration.
Jeanette Winterson – The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want, unless you have found what you really want inside yourself. When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. Its a reference point, not an end in itself, even though you seem to be following it. So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself. The end of all your exploring will be to cease from exploration and know the place for the first time.
Jeff Bezos – Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
Jeff Bezos – Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.
Jeff Bridges – It’s interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well.
Jeff Dean – The idea behind reinforcement learning is you don’t necessarily know the actions you might take, so you explore the sequence of actions you should take by taking one that you think is a good idea and then observing how the world reacts. Like in a board game where you can react to how your opponent plays.
Jeff Jarvis – Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.
Jeff Mangum – The possibilities are infinite, and there is no reason not to explore them.
Jennifer Lynch – For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn’t hurting someone else.
Jenny Han – Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place.
Jenny Nimmo – You can explore worlds you didn’t know existed.
Jenova Chen – Journey’ is a way for us to explore the crossing, the intersection of our lives between each other.
Jeremy Robinson – When I’ve pictured what Heaven would be like, I’ve always imagined myself free to explore the outer reaches of space.
Jerome Bruner – Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
Jerrod Carmichael – I just like to explore honest thoughts or feelings. How I’m feeling at the time. I want to explore it and talk about it…
Jesse Plemons – The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.
Jessica Biel – For me, getting married doesn’t mean we should limit ourselves to some pre-defined idea. Rather, it’s an opportunity to explore new things in life.
Jewell Parker Rhodes – They explore what it’s like to survive, thrive, and become more themselves.
Jhumpa Lahiri – I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought – the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.
Jill Greenberg – There were a lot of interesting elements to explore.
Jim Hunt – Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.
Jim Murphy – A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet…
Jim Rash – The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail – that’s something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.
Jimi Hendrix – Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?
Jimmy Chin – I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what’s around the corner.
Joanna Going – I always knew I was eager to explore a lot more work in a lot more arenas.
Jochen Zeitz – As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music – from classical to rock.
Jodhi May – I felt I could only fully explore once I’d completed my degree.
Jodi Picoult – As an American I wanted to explore…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
Johannes Kepler – As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter… Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.
John Archibald – Wheeler In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
John Baldessari – I decided to explore both.
John Cage – My work became an exploration of non-intention.
John Dyer – On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
John F. Kennedy – Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
John F. Kennedy – Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. Kennedy – 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 – The United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.
John F. Kennedy – We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.
John Gimlette – Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn’t done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when he is off doing his ice dogs and that sort of thing – and therefore its not only an exploration of the place but also his imagination in a sense. It’s very successful as technique.
John Glenn – A lot of people ask…why a man is willing to risk… Well, we’ve got to do it. We’re going into an age of exploration that will be bigger than anything the world has ever seen… If a man faces up to the (unknown) and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny.
John Glenn – Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don’t think we go to new places just solely to say: “Well, we’ve been there,” and come back, interesting though it may be. To me, each time we go farther into space we should use that to do basic research – basic research that can’t be done before you go there.
John Glenn – I think sometime we will go to Mars and I think we’ll explore it with humans sometime, but I think it’s really wise to do all the robotic exploration ahead of time and learn as much as possible. Once we have learned as much as possible with the robots, then that’s the time to send people, and let them then continue the research that the robots have started.
John Glenn – You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.
John Haines – The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led inward also. And from the study of things underfoot, and from reading and thinking, came a kind of exploration, myself and the land. In time the two became one in my mind. With the gathering force of an essential thing realizing itself out of early ground, I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing— to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching.
John Hope Franklin – 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 Irving – I don’t really set out to explore grand themes. I set out to tell a story. And one I have to be able to imagine right through.
John Irving – If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you’ll recognize that and make the necessary revisions.
John L. Phillips – 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 – In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn’t mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.
John M. Grunsfeld – The biggest honor is to be an astronaut. It’s such a tremendous privilege to be able to represent humankind in our quest to explore space.
John McCain – There’s a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we’ll continue.
John Muir – I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one’s fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives.
John Niven – The Clash were the first big love of my life. Lyrically, they inspired me to get out, explore life, and maybe kick some doors down.
John Paul Caponigro – The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light; a tool that captures the elemental and animates or holds it still at will; a tool that captures the organic flow of the earth’s crust or the wash of a wave, and creates an impossible symmetry, an elemental Rorshach pattern ripe for continued exploration, divulging a thousand revelations.
John Polanyi – Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
John Rhys-Davies – I’ve always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.
John Steinbeck – The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
John Taylor Gatto – You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!
John Travolta – The only thing I ran into is that I am a wanderlust, as far as travel and adventure. I will go off on any given moment with the family and friends to explore the world. I go around the world once a year. I go to Africa, you know, Russia, wherever… I love it.
John W. Gardner – We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
John Wesley Powell – The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
John Wesley Powell – We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
John Wesley Powell – You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
Johnny Depp – To explore purity. It was a hard one to walk away from.
Johnny Vegas – I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn – I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.
Jon Krakauer – Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies.
Jonathan Blow – You could make a very focused exploration game, that was about player creativity and exploration.
Jonathan Ive – 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.
Jordan Peterson – Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.
Jose Clemente Orozco – We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
Jose Ortega y Gasset – The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Jose Parla – My work is an exploration of the self.
Joseph Morgan – That’s something I would like to explore.
Joseph P. Allen – You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship’s wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it’s just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you’re a hundred ninety miles up.
Joseph Plaskett – All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu – Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.
Josh Groban – Everybody wants to experiment, wants to explore.
Joshua Sasse – If you don’t travel the world and see as much of it as you can – see different characters in different situations – then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.
Joshua Slocum – If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.
Joyce Carol Oates – As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my ‘farm chores’ – but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.
Judith Rodin – During this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.
Jules Verne – I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
Julia Cameron – Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.
Julia Cameron – 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.
Julian Huxley – The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational, and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable.
Julian Huxley – We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more than a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency. The human race, in fact, is surrounded by a large area of unrealized possibilities, a challenge to the spirit of exploration.
Julie Payette – On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.
Julie Payette – We should continue all the time to look out for those who have less, to stand for those who can’t, to reach out across differences, to use our land intelligently, to open our borders and welcome those who seek harbour, and never, ever cease to be curious, ask questions, and to explore and search.
Juliette Binoche – I want to know why I’m alive. I want to understand. It’s like exploration; it’s like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching – it’s a passion.
Justina Chen – Getting lost is just another way of saying ‘going exploring.’

Kaitlin Olson – You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.
Karan Mahajan – Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn’t have had I been living here.
Karen O – I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I’m falling asleep, like I’ll go crazy if I don’t do it.
Karyn Kusama – I just think that’s worth exploring. I don’t know what is more important, actually, to explore than that very dynamic.
Kate Smith – As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
Katherine Dunn – Freedom within any kind of social structure – the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is – is an ongoing preoccupation of mine. And I certainly don’t think I’ve come to the end of that exploration, and with any luck, I never will. But I’m very curious about exactly what kind of beast we are. We’re so complicated.
Katherine Dunn – I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
Katherine Heigl – I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.
Kathryn Bigelow – Allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.
Katie Cassidy – I really want to explore that side of me.
Katie Melua – I’d also like to explore more of Georgia, my home country, because one day I really want to make an album that is written in the Georgian language.
Kellie Martin – I believe a child’s most important job is to explore the world around them through play.
Keren Ann – If I look at it, it’s about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.
Kieran Bew – You explore things, and generally you meet experts in lots of fields, and you get to absorb that information and make it look like you’ve done it for 20 years.
Kim Raver – I love doing the research, and I love – I feel fortunate in the sense that I get to explore many different worlds, of things that I may not really get to learn a lot about.
Kip Thorne – The human race has a yearning to explore. That’s part of our biological and psychological makeup.
Krafft Arnold Ehricke – While civilization is more than a high material living standard, it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or in an atmosphere of resignation and hopelessness. Therefore the end objectives of solar system exploration are social objectives in the sense that they relate to, or are dictated by, present and future human needs.
Kristen Kish – One day I may commit to a city and settle down and do the restaurant thing – when I’m ready and however and whatever the definition of a restaurant means to me and how I want to cook for people. Many lessons to be learned that are probably long overdue for me and I’m finding them through all channels of exploration and keeping all my doors open.
Kurt Busiek – I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.
Kyle Kuzma – I wanted to explore the world and explore life. I wanted to have more to life than Flint.
Kylie Jenner – I want to explore a lot of things, do acting here and there.
Kyra Sedgwick – I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

L. Ron Hubbard – Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads.
L.A. Paul – I do think that metaphysical exploration is like scientific exploration, in the sense that philosophers and scientists are both developing models of reality, and furthermore that we all rely to a significant extent on the idea that models which provide elegant, simple and satisfying explanations are more likely to be true.
Laini Taylor – Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.
Laura Linney – It is always good to explore the stuff you don’t agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn’t know.
Laura Marano – The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around… and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!
Laura Marling – We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
Laura Nyro – As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.
Lauren Bush – College was a wonderful time to really explore my interests.
Lauren Jauregui – It’s cool to be able to give each other that space to really explore ourselves individually and grow.
Lauren Jauregui – We all allow each other to explore our individual things that make us happy…
Lauv – I’ve been through so many different phases, partly because I moved around so much. I never found my identity based on where I was from. It was always pick up and explore something else.
Lawrence M. Krauss – Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.
Leonard Cohen – I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
Leonard Nimoy – 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 – That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.
Leroy Chiao – Cooperating in something as visible as space exploration and space flight can only improve relations between the two countries because what happens is, you’re working on a common project in a very visible light and so, you’re motivated to not have conflicts with each other in other areas. And bringing up China is a good example. In the early ’90’s, China got serious about wanting to launch astronauts into space and they were actually quite successful in launching many communication satellites. They went ahead and in 2003 they launched their first astronaut into space.
Lewis Clarke – I’ve been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it’s harder than I ever thought it would be. I’ve suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable.
Lewis Gordon – The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we’re exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It’s not physical – it’s all in the head.
Lillian Russell – Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.
Lilly Singh – I think it’s about exploration. I think it’s about trying new things, meeting new people, and also, it’s about borrowing inspiration from other people. Because I still have those moments where I’m like, “Oh my God, I’m a loser, what am I doing?”
Lincoln Ellsworth – One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth’s surface after my father.
Linus Roache – I realised success as an actor alone wouldn’t make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.
Lisa Lampanelli – When you deny an artist the chance to explore his art, you’re forcing your beliefs on him.
Lisa Nowak – Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and the universe.
Lisa Randall – Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.
Liza Koshy – I can’t wait to explore all the fun opportunities with them and feel even more awesome.
Lloyd Dorfman – India offers exciting business opportunities owing to the growth in corporate travel and a significant middle-class population waiting to explore the world.
Lois Greenfield – My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.
Lois Mailou Jones – Mine is a quiet exploration…
Louie Schwartzberg – What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we’re surrounded by things we can’t see.
Louis Agassiz – But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent.
Louis Leakey – Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.
Louis Theroux – There’s obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified.
Louise J. Kaplan – The invisible bond that gives the baby rein to discover his place in the world also brings the creeping baby back to home base….In this way he recharges himself. He refuels on the loving energies that flow to him from his mother. Then he’s off for another foray of adventure and exploration.
Lucy Larcom – I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school.
Ludovico Einaudi – I love to explore melody.
Ludwig Goransson – Travelling is a key part of my life. It keeps me inspired, takes me to new places, introduces me to new sounds, and allows me to explore new environments and soundscapes.
Luke Davies – I’ve somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attenuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.
Luke James – I love a very alluring woman. I love a strong woman. I love a woman that wanders, that just wants to explore.
Lulu Wang – It has to explore a burning question that I have.
Lyndon B. Johnson – The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Lynn Hill – For me, climbing is a form of exploration that inspires me to confront my own inner nature within nature. It’s a means of experiencing a state of consciousness where there are no distractions or expectations. This intuitive state of being is what allows me to experience moments of true freedom and harmony.
Lynne McTaggart – To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn’t particularly plan to go to.

M. Scott Peck – Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.
M.I.A. – Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.
Madeleine M. Kunin – Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
Madeline Brewer – It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.
Mae Jemison – 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.
Mahatma Gandhi – The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.
Mahatma Gandhi – Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
Maira Kalman – I’d like to explore the world of multiples…
Malcolm Boyd – Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore – but to practice.
Malik Bendjelloul – After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
Manushi Chhillar – I have an ocean of opportunities awaiting me and once I am back from Miss World, I want to explore whatever life has to offer.
Marco Polo – I have not told half of what I saw.
Margaret Mead – Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.
Margaret Mead – No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation… We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that’s fragile, that’s only one, it’s all we have… We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.
Maria Montessori – The ancient saying, “There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses,” and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.
Marilyn Ferguson – Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
Mario Testino – I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It’s the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You’ve explored so little. I’m lucky: My parents let me explore.
Marion Zimmer Bradley – Science fiction encourages us to explore… all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
Mark Foster – Take chances to go outside the box and explore.
Mark Twain – Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain – Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Marlon Riggs – Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it’s nothing.
Marnie Stern – I’d like to explore something looser and less precise.
Marshall Curry – I have a pretty positive view of environmental activism, but I didn’t know much about the ELF. A lot of people make documentaries because they have something they want to say, but I make them because there’s something I want to explore.
Marshall McLuhan – I do not explain, I explore.
Marshall McLuhan – The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.
Martha Hunt – I can’t choose one favorite place because all destinations have something different to offer. My favorite city to explore is Paris; I love the culture of Morocco and the waterfalls in St. Lucia. I just can’t choose one. I would like to go back to New Zealand to see more of what it has to offer.
Martin Rees – From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.
Mary Anne Radmacher – Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.
Mary Roach – 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.
Masiela Lusha – 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.
Matt Bellamy – This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it’s scary what it does on a global scale. I’m very much caught between the two.
Matthew Fontaine Maury – Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand, and imposing. The very ribs of the solid earth, with the foundations of the sea, would be brought to light, and we should have presented to us at one view the empty cradle of the ocean.
Matthew Henson – I think I’m the first man to sit on top of the world.
Matthew Sweet – I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore.
Matthew Zapruder – Well, I believe that “thinking” is just as real a phenomenon in the world as anything else, and just as worthy of exploration. Maybe even more?
Maurice Strong – My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I’m active because I can’t think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement.
Max Lucado – A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
Maya Lin – You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
Maya Soetoro-Ng – I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.
MC Hammer – I plan on continuing to explore all the possibilities of technology, and then finally film and television and movies. Embrace it.
Mehmet Murat Ildan – Decreasing the budget on the space exploration is nothing but a great treason to humanity! Space exploration is closely related to our very existence! Cut the budget on other things and increase the budget on the space exploration! Think great; if you do not think great, universe annihilates you!
Meriwether Lewis – On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
Michael Chabon – Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?
Michael Palin – I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, ‘Well, that’s pretty much it now.’ But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.
Michele Cassou – The unfolding of the unexpected becomes the energy that drives you. You discover how thirsty you are for exploration without analysis. You become strangely at home in a place you can’t define. You are truly creating.
Michelle Yeoh – The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.
Michio Kaku – The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We’re exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology with the Large Hadron Collider because we want to have a window on creation, we want to recreate a tiny piece of Genesis to unlock some of the greatest secrets of the universe.
Mignon McLaughlin – We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Miguel – I think it’s natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.
Mike Flanagan – I think there’s so much to explore within it.
Mike Gordon – We explore things and take things to the extreme.
Mike Svob – The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.
Miriam Margolyes – I want to explore the range of emotions it is possible to feel.
Mitchel Resnick – I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.
Mithila Palkar – I love my work and the fact I am fortunate enough to have the opportunities available to explore.
Mithila Palkar – I want to explore as much as possible.
Molly Antopol – I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.
Monica Bellucci – I like to explore the dark side of humanity.
Mooji – 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.
Moran Atias – I liked to explore different arts.
Mrunal Thakur Ekta – Kapoor believed that I would do good work and allowed me to explore. I had that support system.
Mrunal Thakur – I am not the one for monotony. I am all for chances and its every medium, every genre that I want to explore.
Muhammad Ali – Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Murasaki Shikibu – It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

Naomi Watts – I think it’s good to explore it.
Natasha Rothwell – It was really important to me to explore how disparate people are connected.
Nathan Blecharczyk – It’s not just exciting to build things but to explore new fields and to recognize what comes with that is a lot of uncertainty.
Nathan Myhrvold – We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program – Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers – look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.
Nathan Wolfe – Don’t assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.
Nathan Wolfe – We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing left to explore on Earth.
Naveen Patnaik – For cyclone-proof energy infrastructure, we would definitely explore all possibilities, including international support.
Neal A. Maxwell – Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these . . . lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders!
Neha Dhupia – I want to explore all genres.
Neil Armstrong – Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a … crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks … and it required … flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.
Neil Armstrong – Perhaps it won’t matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny.
Neil Armstrong – There are places to go beyond belief.
Neil Armstrong – This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – 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 – 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.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you’ve got to send humans.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – 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. 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 – People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can’t. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I’ll stay down here and get the data. But nobody’s ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody’s ever named a high school after a robot. So when I don my public-educator hat, I have to recognize the elements of exploration that excite people. It’s not only the discoveries and the beautiful photos that come down from the heavens; it’s the vicarious participation in discovery itself.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, ‘Let’s explore because it’s fun.’ It was, ‘Let’s explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let’s explore so we can become more powerful.’
Neil deGrasse Tyson – The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. And there’s Columbus – he couldn’t even get Italy to pay for his voyage so he has to go to Spain.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in the educational pipeline. It’s vital to our prosperity and security.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – We didn’t go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we’re Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we’re toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – We only went to the moon for military reasons. The space enthusiasts of the day kept saying, “Oh, we’re on the moon; we should be on Mars in ten years.” That’s if it was driven by exploration, but it’s never been driven by exploration.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive the blogosphere. It would drive the projects the kids do in school. So you wouldn’t even need programs to try and stimulate curiosity. You wouldn’t need programs to try to convince people that science literacy is good. Because they’re going to want to participate on this epic adventure that we call space exploration.
Neil Peart – 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 Turok – My experience in science has always been that the future always exceeds what we believe is possible. I suspect that we will explore the universe.
Nelly Ben Hayoun – I believe that, by taking an extreme approach, you really get the public to actively engage with a cause or a research, and that is what motivates me with space exploration.
Newt Gingrich – Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers.
Nichelle Nichols – Science is not a boy’s game, it’s not a girl’s game. It’s everyone’s game. It’s about where we are and where we’re going. Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain’t stopped yet. There’s more exploration to come.
Nicholas Negroponte – While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching – but good teaching and by good teachers – a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.
Nick Woodman – I’m just extremely excited to explore the planet that we’re living on.
Nikki Giovanni – I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It’s really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
Nikolai Berdyaev – The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the world is passion. But passion is associated with sadness. Sadness does not only arise from death which makes us face the Eternity, but also from life which causes us to confront the Time.
Nils Kjaer – He who strays discovers new paths.
Noam Chomsky – Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noomi Rapace – I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself.
Noomi Rapace – When I was a teenager, I was like, ‘Something is wrong with me. I don’t fit in. I’m not like everybody else.’ So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.

Oliver $ – General anxiety is the bridge between the manic joys of creation, exploration, new revelations, professional acceptance and reward, and the depression of self-critique, professional rejection and stagnation. All are part of the roller coaster ride of an artist’s life.
Oliver Goldsmith – A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Stone – We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
Oliver Sykes – You need to explore everything else.
Orhan Pamuk – I consider myself Istanbul’s storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city’s clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
Orison Swett Marden – There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, ‘No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.’
Orlando Figueroa – It’s exciting and encouraging that the spirit of exploration is alive and that students see it occurring in their lifetime. These may well be the children that make it a reality.
Orson Scott Card – The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

Paddy Considine – There’s a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
Pam Grier – And as I reinvent myself and I’m constantly curious about everything, I can’t wait to see what’s around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
Patrick Chan – I relate really well to individuals who have a career and explore other adventures outside of skating. That, to me, is fascinating.
Paul Allen – In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.
Paul Bartsch – Of all the ships that have been devoted to biological explorations of the sea, none has surpassed the endeavors conducted on board the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, during her 39 years of service from 1882 to 1921.
Paul Davies – Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA’s budget is too small for the job.
Paul Fussell – Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. The explorer seeks the undiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history, the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity. If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.
Paul J. H. Schoemaker – 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 – The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth’s crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored.
Paul J. H. Schoemaker – 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 – Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster of a sailing ship! He must stand at the very stern, with an unobstructed view of the sails. When sailing “by the wind” his eye is glued to the weather-side of the uppermost sail; he keeps it drawing a trace of wind, but never lets it fill.
Paul Smith – I think I was really naïve. I had no context to think about what I wanted to do. Each step was a next stage of exploration.
Paul Strand – It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of the world in which he himself lives; and what he creates, or better perhaps, brings back, are the objective results of his explorations. The measure of his talent–of his genius, if you will–is the richness he finds in such a life’s voyage of discovery and the effectiveness with which he is able to embody it through his chosen medium.
Paulo Coelho – I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
Peggy Whitson – I think, just philosophically, we’re made to explore.
Pema Chodron – The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.
Penn Jillette – Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it’s a really cool thing to see.
Peter F. Hamilton – The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.
Peter Morgan – So much more to explore, so it’s never really money.
Petronius – Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
Peyton List – Whenever I have time off, I love to travel and explore.
Phil Klay – I wanted to explore various aspects of the experience without an eye towards delivering any particular message.
Philip K. Dick – The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne’s story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.
Philip Kitcher – I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of possibilities.
Philip Kitcher – In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions – like “How to live?” – from a broad mixture of sources, including literature and philosophy, history and anthropology. These sources can guide our reflections on our own experiences, as we explore and reconsider.
Philip Seymour Hoffman – You want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It’s about your life, the quality of your life.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr. – Growing up with my father’s legacy, we never felt that we had to do anything, but we were always raised to think: What could be better than to explore the wonders of the world and share that with people? To try and make the world a better place. And I guess it stuck.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr. – Let’s face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.
Phillipa Soo – I went through a phase when I was watching a lot of foreign films, just itching to get out of the suburbs and explore.
Pico Iyer – In the past, I’ve visited remote places – North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island – partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn’t ordinarily explore.
PJ Harvey – It’s about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that’s frightening because I haven’t been there before.
Pooja Hegde – I want to explore a new place each year, and it can be within India. When I was shooting for ‘Mohenjo Daro’, I couldn’t travel out of the country for two years. But it gave me an opportunity to explore new places within India. I’m sure there are so many places to explore in India, and I would love to go there.
Poul Anderson – If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

Queen Latifah – My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, ‘Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don’t put everything in one basket,’ but she let me explore and be creative.

R. D. Laing – 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.
Rachel Boston – I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
Rachel Pollack – To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.
Rafael Cruz – You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus – which the only thing it’s done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire – but, what it’s done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration.
Rajneesh – You have to be again innocent, ignorant, not knowing anything, so that the questions can start arising again. Again the inquiry becomes alive, and with the inquiry becoming alive you cannot vegetate. Then life becomes an exploration, an adventure.
Ralph W. Sockman – Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another’s dogmatism.
Ram Charan – I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.
Randall Munroe – Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out.
Randy Forbes – 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.
Ranulph Fiennes – As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
Ranulph Fiennes – I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses – to pay the bills.
Ranulph Fiennes – No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.
Ranulph Fiennes – Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn’t want the same to happen in the Antarctic.
Ray Bradbury – 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.
Ray Charles – There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities.
Reinhold Messner – A good expedition doesn’t need a leader at all. You are deciding day by day, discussing it in a democratic way.
Reinhold Messner – A tourist follows a trail; a mountaineer finds one.
Reinhold Messner – Adventure has to do with private, personal experiences. But, the possibilities, there are millions of unclimbed mountains – I have seen in the Eastern part of Tibet, mountains 6,000-6,500 meters high, vertical walls twice as tall as the Eiger… but nobody is going there, because they aren’t 8,000-meter peaks.
Reinhold Messner – Alpinism means you go by yourself with your own responsibility, knowing that you could die. But Everest now is more like ski tourism: preparing the piste, helping people go up, setting oxygen bottles near the summit.
Reinhold Messner – By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.
Reinhold Messner – I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, ‘He does all these crazy things.’ But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, ‘Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen – impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.’
Reinhold Messner – I think my cultural work is more important than the adventures I did. The adventures are not important for human beings. It’s the conquering of the useless.
Reinhold Messner – I was always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.
Reinhold Messner – Ninety per cent of the tourists climbing big mountains are on 10 mountains – and one million mountains in the world are empty.
Reinhold Messner – Traditional alpinism is to go where the others are not going and to be self-reliant.
Reinhold Messner – William Blake said 200 years ago that when man and mountains meet, something big is happening. I’m searching for the ‘big.’
Remo D’Souza – I would love to explore different areas.
Rex Tillerson – We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.
Rich Brian – Being home-schooled, you really get to explore your hobbies, what you want to do for a living.
Richard Aldington – 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 Branson – Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, & to truly see that impossible is just a word.
Rick Astley – My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure – my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips.
Rick Riordan – I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world.
Rita Dove – I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
Rita Volk – High school is such an awkward, difficult time, and I think a lot of people can’t wait to explore the world because it’s such a bubble.
Rithvik Dhanjani – If you want to evolve and reinvent yourself, you will need to observe people and explore a lot.
Roald Amundsen – We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
Rob Bishop – 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.
Robert A. Heinlein – There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can’t poke his nose into-that’s the way we’re built and I assume that there’s some reason for that.
Robert Aris Willmott – Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

Robert Ballard – Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?
Robert Ballard – Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
Robert Ballard – If you compare NASA’s annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA’s budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
Robert Ballard – 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 – My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!
Robert Ballard – NASA’s annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA’s budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
Robert Ballard – So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
Robert Ballard – The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we’re only now penetrating it.
Robert Ballard – The greatest discoveries all start with the question “Why?”
Robert Ballard – What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
Robert Browning – Tis Man’s to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
Robert Falcon Scott – As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
Robert Falcon Scott – But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.
Robert Falcon Scott – But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
Robert Falcon Scott – Every day some new fact comes to light – some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.
Robert Falcon Scott – Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.
Robert Falcon Scott – I fear we have shot our bolt – but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
Robert Falcon Scott – I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.
Robert Falcon Scott – The events of the day’s march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
Robert Fulghum – My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination – no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It’s the way I feel about dancing – you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time.
Robert Green Ingersoll – Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.
Robert J. Flaherty – All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.
Robert Lepage – I’ve always been a little scared of technology, which is why I explore it.
Robert Louis Stevenson – For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Redford – When I was young, I said to myself, “You’ve got to make the most of your life.” It’s all about taking risks. Push yourself to do as much exploration as possible. Find yourself. Because sometimes we think we’ve found ourselves, but it’s only part of ourselves we’ve found. We haven’t pushed ourselves far out there where we make mistakes and things don’t work out, but at least we’ve discovered something. I felt that’s what my life had to be.
Robert Zubrin – The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human exploration of the Red Planet.
Roberta Williams – My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.
Robin Hunicke – We want to build things that encourage creativity and exploration. We’re working to build a company focused on sustainable, creative and fulfilling game development. It’s aimed at making a positive difference in our lives, as well as the lives of our people.
Roderick MacKinnon – I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.
Roger Scruton – Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject’s control.
Roger von Oech – It’s important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
Roland Barthes – Every exploration is an appropriation.
Romesh Gunesekera – Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it’s not where I live, but it’s what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.
Ron Ben-Israel – I find that my Israeli background actually helps me to break some boundaries because we don’t have such long traditions. We took traditions from Europe, from the Middle East, and we were encouraged to explore and adapt things.
Ron Howard – I believe in the imperative to explore, so any project that I can be involved with that celebrates that, and expands people’s imagination around that idea of pushing out, is one of the most positive things that I think I could be involved with.
Ron Howard – I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore – what it means to us here on Earth – all of those things. I became a huge proponent.
Ron Howard – When ‘Apollo 13’ appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore – what it means to us here on Earth – all of those things. I became a huge proponent.
Ron Pompei – It’s a place where culture and commerce intersect. It’s more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas.
Roscoe Mitchell – I like to explore sounds.
Rose Tremain – I’m not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I’m always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.
Roy Chapman Andrews – 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.
Ruben Papian – The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?
Ruby Dee – Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything.
Russell Brand – The thing for me is, what if one returns to these maxims, these rather simplistic maxims “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Because what canvas have we but the self for these kind of explorations, ultimately.
Ryan Babel – I like to explore the world.
Ryan McCartan – I feel my heart and soul have no choice but to explore both.
Ryszard Kapuscinski – My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Sally Ride – Our future lies with today’s kids and tomorrow’s space exploration.
Samuel Eliot Morison – America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.
Sandra Faber – Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.
Sara Seager – We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.
Sarah Brightman – I’ve always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the ’60s.
Sarah Zettel – 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.
Scotty McCreery – The road is a fun place, and it’s a great place to get out there and explore the country.
Sean Baker – I’ve fallen in love with Los Angeles, and I love to explore it myself.
Sean Mahon – It’s very much an exploration of the human condition and how different people react and respond to their lives. And what they present to the world, in terms of who they are as characters and what is going on behind the mask, in terms of what demons their holding… and how that interacts.
Sean Murray – People are afraid of change, but change can also mean possibilities and new things to explore.
Sebastian Lelio – … a huge invitation to explore an unknown world.
Selena Gomez – I’m going to hang out with people, and I’m going to explore myself, and I’m okay with that.
Selena Gomez – People speculate or think what they want to think, but it’s been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.
Seth Godin – 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.
Shankar Mahadevan – Travel is always connected to music, as with travel, we explore the world, and by listening music, we explore ourselves.
Sharon Creech – Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore!
Sharon Van Etten – I will explore anything that’s interesting and challenging.
Sheila Heti – The voice I’m trying to explore directs my own perceptions and thoughts.
Shenaz Treasury – I encourage people to take the road less travelled, explore the abundant off-beat locations. Take road trips, soak in some breathtaking experiences, and enjoy the scenic landscapes that our country has to offer.
Sherilyn Fenn – I had to explore that to the end.
Shreya Ghoshal – If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.
Shu Qi – When something allows you to open up a bit, you want to explore your newfound freedom.
Shura – I want to explore my boundaries. I want to push myself and go right to the edge of what I am capable of. I don’t want to ever be comfortable.
Shweta Tripathi – As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.
Siddhartha Mukherjee – It seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.
Sidney Buchman – If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn’t it?
Sidney Poitier – I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
Sigurd F. Olson – Man’s history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and trade. Water assured his welfare, its absence meant migration or death, its constancy nourished his spirit. A mountain, a desert, or a great forest might serve his need of strength, but water reflects his inner needs.
Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet – Don’t rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.
Slowthai – I don’t believe in the whole thing of staying anywhere – we are meant to explore, to travel, and meant to spread our roots.
Sobhita Dhulipala – But then, I decided to explore everything possible.
Sobhita Dhulipala – I want to try everything. I don’t want to limit myself to anything. I want to discover as many characters as I can. I just want to explore.
Sofia Boutella – I want to explore, and I’m up for anything.
Soledad O’Brien – You can explore someone’s culture, you can explore their experience, you can explore an issue through human beings who are going through it.
Sonam Wangchuk – We need to explore our own deserts and land, which need to be healed and managed on the planet itself. It is not the time to use and throw this planet and we need to explore deep within more than without. Space exploration should be used to quench human thirst.
Sophia Loren – After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Spiro T. Agnew – How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability.
Stephen Gardiner – The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
Stephen Hawking – Exploration by real people inspires us.
Stephen Hawking – It is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.
Stephen Hawking – Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know.
Steve Jobs – It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one’s environment.
Steve Jurvetson – It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.
Sting – I think there’s room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
Story Musgrave – Getting out of the comfortable path, that’s what exploration is all about.
Sue Bird – You owe it to yourself to explore your options.
Sue Monk Kidd – I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.
Susan Hockfield – I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.
Susanna Phillips – Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.
Susanne Katherina Langer – In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
Sushant Singh Rajput – What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my ‘experience,’ and my urge to explore.
Suzanne Lee – I started to grow microbial cellulose to explore an ecofriendly textile for clothing and accessories but, very quickly, I realized this method had potential for all sorts of other biodegradable consumer products.
Sylvia Earle – I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
Sylvia Earle – There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.
Sylvie Guillem – I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.

T. J. Stiles – A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.
T. S. Eliot – 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. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.
Tamara Tunie – This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much.
Taylor Sheridan – Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Ted Lange – I’ve always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
Tena Desae – I would like to explore my opportunities in the West, so we will have to wait and see.
Terence McKenna – The mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.
Terence McKenna – And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
Terence McKenna – Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
Terry Brooks – A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Tempest Williams – It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster – When I’m working, I look forward to weekends. Film sets give your time a structure; otherwise, one day can run into another. I often find myself in unusual locations, so Friday nights I might head out with some of the cast and crew to explore the town.
Thomas Vinterberg – It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before.
Thor Heyerdahl – We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
Tia Mowry – On the weekends, we would get to travel wherever we wanted, so I would explore. That was a magical time.
Tia Mowry – Sardinia is beautiful. The people were so friendly, and the food was incredible! I also loved Florence. I spent two months there as part of a school study-abroad program. On the weekends, we would get to travel wherever we wanted, so I would explore. That was a magical time.
Tim Daly – I look for characters that offer me opportunities to explore some aspect of the human condition. I think a lot of actors would say that and would look for that. I’ve been lucky enough to find projects that let me do that.
Tim O’Brien – It’s not science, it’s an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.
Toby Jones – When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you’ve landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I’ve had a few good meals.
Tom Freston – Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future – otherwise you’re toast.
Tom Hiddleston – It’s some kind of spiritual exploration, which is an amazing, noble thing.
Tom Hodgkinson – Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon off seems like a fantastic luxury. Before long, you are opting for a four-day week. Then a four-day week becomes an intolerable demand on your time, so you find a way of moving to a three-day week.
Tommy Caldwell – The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing – the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am.
Toni Collette – It’s true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that’s what I’ve been trying to do.
Tori Amos – I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
Tracie Thoms – Explore the humanity of every character.
Tracy K. Smith – A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.
Travis Bradberry – When influential people speak, conversations spread like ripples in a pond. And those ripples are multidirectional; influencers inspire everyone around them to explore new ideas and think differently about their work.
Trent Reznor – I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you’re bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.
Trevor Noah – I think we can explore more things if one of us is not fighting with the other.
Trombone Shorty – Life would be pretty boring if I didn’t explore. It’s about letting my ears take me on an adventure to soak in everything I can.
Tsung-Dao Lee – The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.
Twyla Tharp – I’ve always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we’re only here once. So let’s see how much we can encompass.

Ursula K. Le Guin – The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

V. S. Naipaul – I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn’t know fully.
Valentina Tereshkova – Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility – we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
Vanna Bonta – It’s vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity’s continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.
Vannevar Bush – Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.
Vera Nazarian – A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.
Vera Wang – In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.
Vicky Kaushal – It’s my quest as an actor to explore different territories.
Victor Hugo – Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson – The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
Viswanathan Anand – I have a love for astronomy; Aruna, my wife, and I love travelling, so whenever we get an opportunity, we set off to explore places that have tickled our interest. We are also wildlife enthusiasts.
Vittoria Ceretti – There are still many places around the globe I would like to explore, and I’m going to trust my modeling career to take me to at least some of them!

Wally Schirra – 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.
Walter Lang – Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
Walter Reisch – Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.
Wernher von Braun – Don’t tell me that man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
Wernher von Braun – In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships. . . . So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.
Wernher von Braun – It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wilfred Thesiger – For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice… No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.
William Anders – We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.
William Bartram – The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
William Beebe – In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.
William Beebe – The only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where sunlight has no grip upon the dust and rubbish of planetary air, where the blackness of space, the shining planets, comets, suns, and stars must really be closely akin to the world of life as it appears to the eyes of an awed human being, in the open ocean, one half mile down.
William Beebe – To be a naturalist is better than to be a king.
William Beebe 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 Dampier – The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
William Dampier – The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
William Dampier – While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.
William John Wills – They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.
William Least Heat-Moon – Get out and find …the country. And ourselves.
William P. Young – Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.
William Petersen – Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.
William Shatner – A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.
William Stanley Jevons – Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity be many times as numerous as those which prove well founded.
William Winwood Reade – And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds.
Wim Wenders – The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we’ve been everywhere. There’s not much left to explore. But there’s a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.
Wole Soyinka – Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-configuration of elements of what we call reality.

Yahoo Serious – It’s an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
Yasmine Hamdan – I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me.
Yeshe Tsogyal – I see nothing to fear in inner space.
Yoko Ono – I just like to explore all sorts of different forms – no, ‘explore’ is not even the word – enjoy. You don’t want to limit yourself to a particular form.
Yo-Yo Ma – I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

Zeresenay Alemseged – I’m a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man’s place in nature and explore what makes us human.

Conclusion

In the symphony of human endeavor, exploration stands as a resounding crescendo, echoing the indomitable spirit that propels us beyond the confines of the familiar. Through the eloquent voices of visionaries, adventurers, and pioneers, we have glimpsed the profound wisdom that accompanies the pursuit of the undiscovered. As we conclude our exploration of these inspirational best explore quotes, let us carry the torch of curiosity, lighting the way for future generations to embark on their own odysseys of self-discovery and enlightenment. In the words of those who came before us, we find not only a roadmap of the best exploration quotes but also a testament to the enduring human capacity to seek, to strive, and to soar beyond the horizons of the known.

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