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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.

Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders in Canada looking for sources of ivory to compete with the Russian trade in Siberian fossil mammoth ivory - these traders routinely asked about ivory 'horns' and...

Quotes by Adrienne Mayor

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...

Quotes by Adam Savage

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

Quotes by Thomas S. Monson

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,...

Quotes by Sylvia Earle

After Quotes

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.

Quotes by Joy Harjo

We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.

Quotes by Helen Sharman

The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and that's what I believed.

Quotes by Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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...

Quotes by Edith Widder

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.

Quotes by Christian de Duve

Band Quotes

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.

Quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren

As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.

Quotes by Brian Greene

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Quotes by Bertrand Piccard

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many...

Quotes by Anne Frank

Frequently Asked Questions

What are explorers quotes about?
These quotes widen the idea of an explorer beyond maps and ships, covering everything from scientific curiosity to the way outsiders have historically misread the cultures they encountered.
Why do people search for explorers quotes?
People search this topic for language about curiosity, discovery, and pushing boundaries, useful for anything from travel content to reflections on scientific inquiry.
Is there a quote framing everyone as an explorer?
Yes, one quote calls all of us travelers, even explorers of mortality, stretching the word well past its usual meaning.
Do any of these quotes discuss how explorers misunderstood the people they met?
Yes, one recalls being labeled heathens and sun worshippers by explorers who didn't understand that the sun was viewed as a relative illuminating a shared path.
Is there a quote connecting exploration to childlike curiosity?
Yes, one describes the best scientists and explorers as sharing a kid's sense of wonder, forever running through the same basic list of questions before anything else.

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