Discovery
Where would the world be if throughout history,
our greatest minds had feared that which they could not confirm?
Embrace the unknown with caution, but not with fear.
Karyn Somerfield
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult
bending down and looking together under the grass stems
or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
Mary Catherine Bateson
No man should go through life without experiencing healthy,
even bored, solitude in the wilderness,
finding himself depending solely on himself
and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
Jack Kerouac
When you make the finding yourself --
even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light --
you will never forget it.
Carl Sagan
Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
Every time you do so, you will be certain to find
something that you have never seen before.
Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it,
you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind.
All really big discoveries are the results of thought.
Alexander Graham Bell
The larger the island of knowledge,
the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Bockman
It began in mystery and it will end in mystery,
but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning