Quotes About Exploration

There's this idea in America that you can be whatever you want. That remains an ideal in terms of how you dress too - when you go shopping, you try on all possible selves and then decide.

Climbing is a cross between an athletic or sporting endeavor and the spiritual. I hope it remains that way.

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.

The '60s were a remarkable time because several things were happening at once. Men were leaving planet Earth, kids were breaking into the television age, and I was able to see Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.

As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

Remember when you were a kid, and everyone used to say, 'Would you rather be interested or interesting?' And to me, it was always like, 'Interested!' How is that even a question? I feel very lucky that I'm just really, really interested in a lot of things.

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

'Frampton Comes Alive!' is the album I'll always be remembered for. I'm very proud of the music that's on it. Why it exploded the way it did and continues to live on are things that can't fully be explained.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Kids will remind you that, even though you've gone down a road 100 times, it's brand new for them - and that's healthy.

I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

I like finding things that are on the fringes and sort of half-forgotten, and to remind us of those things.

One thing that I'm continually reminded of is just to always find something that will challenge you in a new way, a very new way, and that's not the easiest of roads, but it's the most exciting.

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

When I was growing up, I used to have dreams of going to fly. Being in space reminds me of that.

When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.

Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.

It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.