Quotes About Exploration

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.

But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon.

A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.

I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

I surf the net regularly.

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

For me, I like to have mystery in the surf films.

My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.

I could probably live in London if you had better surf.

I hate staying in resorts. When I go on holiday, I like to stay in crappy places with great surf.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface.

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.

Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.

It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

The surface of Mars is bathed in ultraviolet light, bathed in radiation. Mars's magnetic field is essentially gone, so the surface of Mars is essentially sterilized.

Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.