Quotes About Discovery

I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.

God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.