Quotes About Adventure

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

I'm sad that there no more mysterious places in the world.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.