Quotes About Exploration

We forget how recently astronomers figured out what the stars are made of, what makes them shine, how distant they are, how they are born, and whether they remain immutable or evolve and die.

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

I don't know why. I'm fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.

We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.

For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that's running on principles that we don't even understand.

Electronics are getting more and more accessible now - you don't have to be an engineer to start building things.

I have learnt many things, but there's more to learn. Every day is a new start.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas.

My whole entry into astronomy started from a spiritual place.

It was like I need something else in my life, and that's when I kind of went back to my childhood interest in aviation and aerospace, and I just started flying.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

My grandmother started my interest in secret doors, trying to find things she lost, and we found an old letter in a great bookcase with a round facade.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered that there was this World's Fair thing in the background. I thought, 'I'll read about the fair.' I had nothing better to do. I'd dismissed about a dozen ideas, and I was getting sort of antsy. I started reading, and that's where I got hooked.

I've met writers who wanted to be writers from the age of six, but I certainly had no feelings like that. It was only in the Philippines when I was about 15 that I started reading books by very contemporary writers of the Beatnik generation.

I started reading fantasy and science fiction and writing fantasy and science fiction when I was - when I started junior high school.

All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.