Quotes About Exploration

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Old men ought to be explorers.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.

The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.

No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.