Frank Herbert
Science Fiction Writer
"If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration."
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Exploration
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Explore. Dream. Discover."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa."
Andrew Carnegie
Industrialist, Philanthropist
"Pioneering don't pay."
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"Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries."
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"Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves."
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"I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life."
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"I do not explain, I explore."
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"How do I work? I grope."
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"We shall not cease from exploration"
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"The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought."
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"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."
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"Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival."
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"Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought."
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"The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration."
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"The choice is: the Universe...or nothing."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it."
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"Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch. It's also an exaggeration when placed across from the race riots. Because again you have the police department and you have Michael Jackson."
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