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- Nov 07, 2020
Explorers Quotes
On curiosity, discovery, and being misunderstood along the way.
One quote widens the definition of explorer to include all of us as travelers of mortality, while another recalls being labeled heathens by outsiders who misunderstood a sun-centered worldview entirely. A scientist's quote ties exploring back to a kid's endless best questions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.
- Boundaries
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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- Nov 07, 2020