Quotes About Exploration

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

What the Man-Moth fears most he must do.

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart's content with nothing more than a pencil and a napkin.

The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world. And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer.

What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you?

Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from South Philly after they've blundered into the mega jackpot Hiro Protagonist - Snow Crash