Quotes About Exploration

But listen," he shouted to the guard, "there's a whole world you don't know anything about … here, how about this?

Tips for aliens in New York: Land anywhere, Central Park, anywhere. No one will care or indeed even notice.

A slight hiss built into a deafening roar of rushing air as the outer hatchway opened onto an empty blackness studded with tiny, impossibly bright points of light. Ford and Arthur popped into outer space like corks from a toy gun.

The alphabet does not go "A B C D What? When? How?" but it does go "V W X Why? Z.

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

Out there? said the man. Out where? Out there! said Zarniwoop, pointing at the door. How can you tell there's anything out there? said the man politely. The door's closed.

Then Frankie said: 'Here's a thought. How many roads must a man walk down?

he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc.

Another world, another day, another dawn. The early morning's thinnest sliver of light appeared silently. Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold and slightly damp.

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La storia di tutte le maggiori civiltà galattiche tende ad attraversare tre fasi distinte ben riconoscibili, ovvero le fasi della Sopravvivenza, della Riflessione e della Decadenza, altrimenti dette fasi del Come, del Perché e del Dove. La prima fase, per esempio, è caratterizzata dalla domanda 'Come facciamo a procurarci da mangiare?', la seconda dalla domanda 'Perché mangiamo?' e la terza dalla domanda 'In quale ristorante pranziamo oggi?

And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

I didn't have a copy of Europe on Five Dollars a Day (as it then was) because I wasn't in that financial league.

A scientist must be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

aphod Beeblebrox crawled bravely along a tunnel, like the hell of a guy he was. He was very confused, but continued crawling doggedly anyway because he was that brave.

quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

How can you tell there's anything out there?' said the man politely. 'The door's closed.

it's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly I think it's the fame and the money . . .

A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da Interrogação e a da Sofisticação, também conhecidas pelas fases Como, Porquê e Onde. Por exemplo, a primeira fase é caracterizada pela pergunta Como vamos comer?, a segunda pela pergunta Por que comemos? e a terceira pela pergunta Onde vamos almoçar?.

We've arrived at another of those doors." There was a sliding door let

Space,' it says, 'is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

went back on to the bridge to watch over the tiny flashing lights and figures that charted the ship's progress through the void.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is, as has been remarked before often and accurately, a pretty startling kind of a thing.

What's so great about being stuck in a dust cloud?