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In my systematic explorations through the realms of microscopic anatomy, there came the turn of the nervous system, that masterpiece of life.
— 1937 Recollections of My Life.
A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
abraham pais— Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988), p. 45
The discoveries of science , the works of art are explorations more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or the artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
jacob bronowski— Part 1: "The Creative Mind", §9 (p. 19)
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.
frank herbert— "Men on other planets", essay in The Craft of Science Fiction, (1976), edited by Reginald Bretnor.
If her hunch was right, the earl’s explorations were connected in some way to ley travel: that peculiar phenomenon that had plucked her from the twenty-first century and dropped her so rudely into the seventeenth.
stephen r. lawhead— p. 105 (The Bone House (2011))
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives.
john muir— Terry Gifford, LLO, page 693
