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 * 1) Research Question: Is the need to explore a trait unique to humanity? Are we the only species to have invented it, or to have it ingrained into our DNA?
 * 2) The Old Astronomer (To His Pupil)
 * 3) Sarah Williams
 * 4) http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/poems/swilliams1.html
 * 5) web (google search) on May 23
 * 6) Speaker: An old, dying astronomer. Occasion: his deathbed. Audience: his student within the poem, all scientists and explorers reading the poem. Purpose: to encourage those who might not have the motivation to carry on their exploration, to make his student at peace with his death. Subject: a broad overview of the astronomer's life, what challenges he thinks that his student will face, and his own opinions about his passing. Tone: soothing, calm
 * 7) A poem about an astronomer on his deathbed, talking to and encouraging his pupil.
 * 8) Though those who have gone before you have passed on, and though some may laugh at your ideas, science must move forward in order to explore the unknown.
 * 9) Though the author talks about the subject of exploration, she does not go into depth about it, so this source may not be the best.
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 * 1) Once you have tasted flight...
 * 2) Leonardo DaVinci
 * 3) http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5504-once-you-have-tasted-flight-you-will-forever-walk-the
 * 4) website- 5/28/14
 * 5) Speaker: DaVinci, someone who has explored many things and concepts in his lifetime. Occasion: unknown, presumably after someone asked him about what it is like to have explored. Audience: those like him who explore and long for adventure. Purpose: to warn of the bittersweet feeling of having experienced something beautiful and then no longer experiencing it. Subject: "flight", although that can be broadly interpreted as exploration. Tone: wistful
 * 6) DaVinci is insinuation that once you begin to explore, you cannot stop. He makes "the sky" a.k.a the place that you have journeyed to seem to be somewhere idealistic, somewhere better than where you are now.
 * 7) Once you have gone beyond what is familiar to you, you cannot go about doing familiar things again the same way you had before.
 * 8) DaVinci speaks as though he has experience with the subject and the feeling that he is describing, so I am inclined to believe his opinions.
 * 9) “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” (That's the whole quote)
 * 1) “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” (That's the whole quote)
 * 1) “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” (That's the whole quote)