Quotes About Exploration

A new lover. Fresh knowledge and a virgin body to paw. Shopping together for wicker furniture in the mall. Visiting the lingerie store. Picking out matching shotguns.

The windchill factor above Camp IV could only be found on a chart for Mars.

Konrad had gone to the New World without me, and no matter how fast I ran westward, how close I kept to the sunsets, I would never catch up with him now.

Tavernier 1925: I:105; Hambly 1982: 438–42.

But in order to look, one has to start with a beginner's mind that carries no preconceptions or presumptions. The beginner's mind looks to find out what is new; it does not look to confirm.

The other day, in the course of one of those more or less clandestine visits to the city on the Clyde I make from time to time, I was walking down Buchanan Street when I came smack up against something I'd never seen before: that sculpture of a big bird struggling into flight called Concept of Kentigern. Maybe Glasgow is about ready to leave its status as industrial mastadon of the Western world and fly over into other dimensions. Maybe there's a good time coming.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.

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Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives, and lifts our national spirit. So let us continue the journey.

We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.

Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere... Nope, no weapons over there... Maybe under here.

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

Contact light.

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

It might have been a small step for Neil, but it was a big step for me.