Quotes About Exploration

They're trying to understand what space is. That's tough for them. They break distances down into concentrations of chemicals. For them, space is a range of taste intensities.

The asteroid was longer on the inside than it was on the outside. The seventh chamber went on forever.

Parantham finally realized that selecting a star on the map enabled a sub-menu with the unassuming option "Go to star". Choosing this did not change the map's viewpoint or magnification; rather, it caused the map to inquire politely, "Are you sure you wish to travel to this star?

Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.

Isn't that what the Peerless is for? Anything too difficult for the home world?

Maybe it seems strange to you, all the trouble we're taking to catch a glimpse of what you're going to see in close-up, so soon. It's hard to explain: I don't think it's jealousy, or even impatience. Just a need for independence.

Twelve thousand years after walking the plank, Rakesh woke on the floor of his tent. He was lying face-down on a blue and gold sleeping mat; he drew in a deep breath to savour the rich scent of its fibres. This was the tent he'd carried with him on all his travels on Shab-e-Noor, and it remained with him wherever he went.

walked a few paces away from her, then turned his whole body towards the south; in this flat desert, it wasn't impractical to triple his axial span. He

He was a bridger. He created you to touch other cultures. He wanted you to reach as far as you could.

You say science is about admitting what we don't know," she said.

Wine me, dine me, Deep Space Nine me.

Remember that what you do not yet know is more important than what you already know.—Jordan Peterson

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is an insect, crawling across a page of the Encyclopedia Britannica, knowing only that something vast is passing by beneath, all without your sensing more than a yawning vacancy.

Certainty is the lot of those who do not ask questions.

Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been. —THEODORE VON KÁRMÁN

The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a personal star. That is ascent.

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent...

And to live only once– What if that's not enough?

I want to study The book of the world: Every vanishing page.

Some days I think this one place isn't enough. That's when nothing is enough, when I want to live multiple lives and be allowed to love without limits. Those days, like today, I walk with a purpose but no destinations. Only then do I see, at least momentarily, that everything is here. — Gretel Ehrlich, Islands, the Universe, Home (Penguin, 1992)