#wander

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#build #equation #eventually #experiments #mathematics

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#evolving #expressed #growth #i #knowledge

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#content #craving #earth #envy #exiles

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home. ↗

— J. Maarten Troost

#escapism #happiness #paradise #travel #wanderlust

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#purpose #wanderer

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#africa #best #dangerous #had #house

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#believe #city #down #got #into

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#know #september #summer #through #wander

Not all who wander are lost. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#wander #who

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#had #i #wanderer #wonderful #wonderful childhood