Quotes About Discovery

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives, and lifts our national spirit. So let us continue the journey.

Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere... Nope, no weapons over there... Maybe under here.

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.

Contact light.

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

I know the sky is not the limit, because there are footprints on the Moon -- and I made some of them!

What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.

I was saddened to learn of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, a fellow space traveler because he helped make the journey into the final frontier accessible to us all.... Indeed, there are strange new worlds to explore -- to seek out new life and start new civilizations. It is time to boldly go where no man -- or woman -- has gone before. Thanks to Leonard Nimoy and his beloved Mr. Spock, the bar has been set high for us to continue humanity's quest to probe outward in the universe.

iPhones compute more than what we had for Apollo but if I throw them in the air will they do a star sighting?

I use plane rides to write down my thoughts. Such as figuring out radial distance plots for Mars missions.

No woman has ever stepped on Little America -- and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

siempre lo había visto desde el mismo ángulo, y ahora le descubría aspectos diferentes, casi desconocidos.

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.

In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.

Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid.

We won't be deceivedby titles such as Indispensable and Unique and Great.Someone else indispensable and unique and greatcan always be found at a moment's notice.

Setting out on the voyage to Ithacayou must pray that the way be long,full of adventures and experiences.

You'll not find another place, you'll not find another sea.This city is going to follow you.