Quotes About Exploration

This is a disease for the person who wants to experience it all.

The one word that Newfoundland has given the world is penguin. No one has any idea what inspired it.

and all children everywhere go through a phase in which they become oddly fascinated with the idea of "gone" and "all gone.

On this trip as we drove across Pennsylvania, a state so ludicrously vast that it takes a whole day to traverse

Australia is just so full of surprises.

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Science is about making stuff, just as much as it is about understanding stuff.

those befuddling networks of pedestrian subways that compel you to surface every few minutes like a gopher to see where you are.

I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.

Just passing through a door, being inside, surrounded by walls and a ceiling, was novel.

It would be possible to sail from Scandinavia to Canada without once crossing more than 250 miles of open sea.

It struck me, not for the first time, that there seemed to be more places in Australia for tourists to go than there were tourists to fill them. At

Even with the advantage of clothing, shelter, and boundless ingenuity, humans can manage to live on only about 12 percent of Earth's land area and just 4 percent of the total surface area if you include the seas. It is a sobering thought that 96 percent of our planet is off-limits to us.

I know we're not the first to discover this,' Gene Cernan radioed back from about 29,000 kilometres, 'but we'd like to confirm, from the crew of America, that the world is round.

Would Giovanni da Verrazano think being eaten by cannibals a reasonable price to pay for having his name attached to a toll bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island? I suspect not.

You are totally at the mercy of nature in this country (Australia), mate.

Well, I went for a ride but I didn't find my car

You must have the courage to follow an unconventional path.

If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.

Doubt is the only appropriate response for human beings.

thirteen-year-old boys looking at porn for the first time

Scientific Progress goes boink?

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.