Quotes About Exploration

We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there's no wind.

What I remember is being on the moon. I remember every second. Every stone. Every star we saw. Sometimes it feels like I never really came back." - spoken by character Alan Bean

The Wayfarer.

Brendan, as you know, is called "Brendan the Navigator.

Historically some of the most prosperous societies - Ancient Athens, Renaissance Italy, nineteenth century Britain - were among those that were most oriented towards experimentation and the taking of risks.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

I've always believed that if you know what you're going to do, you won't do it. Your creativity starts with your curiosity.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

After a lifetime of soft, easy living in the West, one's buttocks take an awful hammering out here. Backpacking around India is just one long round of sitting on bone-hard, chafing, bruising and generally uncomfortable seats-whether in buses our trains, or restaurants or cinemas. There is no such thing as a padded seat in the whole country.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far'--and when others follow, as they will, move on.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance

They can only burrow a few metres deep.

Dr Frost and Dr Bohrmann

Dr Samantha Crowe.

Merkwürdige Rasse, die Menschheit. Flog zum Mond und schändete kleine Kinder.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution. —J. Oswald Sanders

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself — nature does it for you.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift.

You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

I find that a great part of the information I have acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way