Quotes About Exploration

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.

God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.