Quotes About Exploration

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him, you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

The true object of human life is play.

Your world is as big as you make it.

Hunting God is a great adventure.

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

A great ship asks deep water.

Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

Man is preceded by forest followed by desert.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.

Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereotypes who could supply the emotional frame for the potentially jarring truths of these distant places.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.