Quotes About Exploration

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available... a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

It's good to be curious about many things.

I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.

A friend of mine was in a taxi in Washington, D.C., going slowly past the National Archives, when he noticed the words on the cornerstone of the building: "The past is prologue." He read them out loud to the taxi driver and said, "What do you think that means, 'The past is prologue'?" The taxi driver said, "I think it means, 'Man, you ain't seen nothin' yet!

Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.

To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Who holds Wayfinder finds good roads, Its master's step is brisk; The Sword of Wisdom lightens loads But adds unto their risk.

1. Knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."--

Here was not only the dynamic of primeval myth. Here was the drama of the Eucharist and the plot of Easter, explored by a pen in the Berggasse, scratching on into the night.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

His heart was in his garden; but his brainWandered at will among the fiery stars.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Know where safe harbors are and what course to steer. The best trip is always a safe trip.

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

Four thousand A.U. plus is a long trip-and that's as the crow flies. Or, actually, as the photon fires, because of course there aren't a lot of crows in near-interstellar space.

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

I have weighed all the dogs and have come to the conclusion that we can feed them on each other and keep going for about fifty days, having, in addition to this, dog provisions for about thirty days, we ought to be able to travel with dogs for eighty days, and in that time it seems to me we should have arrived somewhere.

Der Inhalt der Physik geht die Physiker an, die Auswirkung alle Menschen.