Quotes About Exploration

When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark."

The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time... and a crayon.

Finally, while I don't want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens's Great Expectations over Kathy Acker's Great Expectations, though I'll take Lauren Fairbanks's Sister Carrie over Dreiser's any day--there's a whole other world of novels out there most people never even hear of, much less read. Let's go see.

Doar pentru c? nu ?tim cum func?ioneaz? un anumit lucru, asta nu înseamn? c? nu func?ioneaz?.

One August day a few years back, my friend Dan Bogan and I spent a whole day up on a hill that was shaped like a woman's chest. We were hiding in the cleavage, out of sight.

Driving around the West, I was like an illiterate man staring into a book; he doesn't understand what exactly he's seeing, but he damn sure knows it's important

Try to remember that they're the reason you're out there—that their experience comes first. Adjust your pace to hike with them and set goals together for reaching certain landmarks or distances.

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I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. Steven Spielberg

at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.

Science and technology benefit each other, but at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.

Los hombres no se contentan con consolarse mediante cuentos de dios y gigantes, o limitando sus pensamientos a los asuntos cotidianos de la vida. También construyen telescopios, satélites y aceleradores, y se sientan en sus escritorios durante horas interminables tratando de descifrar el significado de los datos que reúnen.

Anywhere is walking distance, if you've got the time.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Write from Beyond what you know. From the authority of your senses." -author of Meditations in Green

I was reading the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything

We carry our own wilderness with us.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

In the genre of science fiction it is more important to be fruitfully mistaken than dully accurate. That's why we are science fiction writers, not scientists.