Boundless Exploration Quotes

There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

One must not put manacles upon science.

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and of no age …

I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

There's literally nowhere I won't go.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a hundred alternative routes present themselves. I choose one, no sooner begin, than a hundred more appear. Every time I try to narrow down my intent I expand it, and yet those straits and canals still lead me to the open sea, and then I realize how vast it all is, this matter of the mind. I am confounded by the shining water and the size of the world.

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

I just want people to know the reality, and I want people to see the world as it really is - the world is our playground, and we can do anything we want to do on it. Everyone else needs to see it that way - there are no real rules.