Quotes About Exploration

changing her course several times. And when she spotted the flag raised over Master Chucai's tent, she quickly

Neal Stephenson

He went back to the search box and typed "Eutropians." A memory from the early days of the Internet, the 1990s tech boom.

We've missed you, Jack," she said, "where've you been?" "Running an errand—meeting some locals—partaking of their rich traditions," Jack said. "Can we get out of Germany now, please?

NONE OF YOU WILL EVER STAND ON TERRA FIRMA, TOUCH YOUR loved ones, or breathe the atmosphere of your mother planet again," the president said. "That is a terrible fate. And yet it is a better fate than seven billion people trapped on the Earth's surface can hope for. The last ship home has sailed. From now on, launch vehicles will rise up into orbit, but they will not go back for ten thousand years." The

Frink and Blevins had an uber-mission (I wonder, shall it seem antiquated or inconceivable, if these words are ever brought to light?).

It was no longer necessary to send out dirty yokels in coonskin caps to chart the wilderness, kill the abos, and clear-cut the groves; now all you needed was a hot young geotect, a start matter compiler, and a jumbo Source.

Pursuing an explanation for every strange thing you see in the Philippines is like trying to get every last bit of rainwater out of a discarded tire.

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson

THREE DAYS NORTH of the Danube, the road focused to a rut in a crowd of scrawny trees that were striving to rise clear from a haze of grasping weeds.

Arjuna asteroid.

Half an hour later I pronounced us lost. Jesry accepted it with pleasure, as if this were more satisfactory than being found.

We gotta terraform Earth before we get distracted by Mars

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson

Gold is where you find it.

They walk into the hop field. Carefully. There is an enveloping smell, a resiny odor not unlike marijuana, the sharp smell that comes off an expensive beer.

The two lieutenants devote a good hour to following the instructions in that manual. The instructions are not that complicated, but Enoch Root keeps noticing syntactical ambiguities and wants to explore their ramifications. First this rattles Ethridge, then his emotions tend towards impatience and, finally, extreme pragmatism.

the scheduled launch, he had flown to Baikonur, bringing

summary to me. I thought you couldn't summarize.

Neal Stephenson

Free from the constraints of racking up high test scores or getting into colleges, students could learn for learning's sake—which was how it ought to be.

What is BFR?" asked Pete Starling. For the graph's vertical scale was labeled thus. "Bolide Fragmentation Rate