Quotes About Exploration

From the open French windows Sylvie watched Maurice erecting a makeshift tennis net, which mostly seemed to involve whacking everything in sight with a mallet. Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.

Sometimes Jackson thought that the past wasn't just another country, it was a lost continent somewhere at the bottom of an unknown ocean.

Maurice had disappeared after breakfast. He was a nine-year-old boy and free to go where he pleased with whomsoever he pleased, although he tended to keep to the exclusive company of other nine-year-old boys. Sylvie had no idea what they did but at the end of the day he would return, filthy from head to toe and with some unappetizing trophy, a jar of frogs or worms, a dead bird, the bleached skull of some small creature.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.