Quotes About Exploration

Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

Books are keys that open many doors.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

But man does not create...he discovers.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.