Quotes About Exploration

When I was little, my mother told me there are basically two kinds of people in the world: town people and circus people. The kind who stay are town people, and the kind who leave are circus people.

How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets!

combining, probing, and developing insights online together.

Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quayside — children have their own agendas and timescales. As they find out more about their world and their place in it, they work hard not to let adults hurry them. We need to hear their voices.

I didn't study the performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña because I needed a sample of the "Chicano experience" like a vitamin supplement. I studied these writers and artists because they were the most interesting thinkers.

But everything is still so new, and so different, for all of us. Most of the time we are lost, drifting along on our own planets. But we are together in the same universe, at least.

I had little wish to recall the callow peddler who would turn over any dank stone in his quest for knowledge.

who they were, or how they worked. That's how I add my few grains to the sandbox of human knowledge. It's what I love best about what I do. And there were so many

I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

saddleback fever.

I had begun this journey following him into the hidden corners of his world and here it ended with him crossed over into the brightest heights of mine.

Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.

that man always had been off in his own boat on some branch of the river no one else ever rowed on.

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

Further and further afield he travelled. Taking ship, he sailed to a hot and passionate country where gypsy women dressed in scarlet, and their dark skin sweated as they danced tarantellas under a tambourine moon.

it is clear that the early settlers in space will be exciting people: restless, inquiring, independent; quite possibly more hard-driving and possessed by more "creative discontent" than their kin in the Old World.

It would be quite feasible to project materials from the Moon's surface down to Earth by means of electrically powered catapults or launching tracks," he wrote.

The construction of space colonies will follow a similar pattern, so that by the year 2010 or thereabouts there will be many space colonies in existence and many new ones being constructed each year.

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.

Leave comfort root-room.

As we explore these possibilities we must remember that they are just that — not predictions or prophecies.

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Dat reizen om ergens een deeltje van toen en toen te ontdekken, dat is toch tijdverspilling? U bent toch schrijver, en geen bibliothecaris? Het gaat in het leven om geheel andere deeltjes.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm To be alive at all involves some risk. Harold Macmillan