Quotes About Exploration

The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.

Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

Nothing fazes me. I'm like some kinda Space man on his way to Mars with a big gun and a whole lot of coffee.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!