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Quotes About Exploration

Right in the Hart of the Africn Jungel a small wite man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that he is the frind of all animals.
~ Gerald Durrell
Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
~ H. G. Wells
In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.
~ Dan Brown
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
~ Anatole France
We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.
~ Andy Rooney
We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?
~ Anthony Langston
The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.
~ Archibald MacLeish
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.
~ Burt Rutan
Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?
~ Buzz Aldrin
America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.
~ Buzz Aldrin
A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.
~ C.S. Friedman
Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.
~ Chad Smith
The man who walks with Henslow.
~ Charles Darwin
Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.
~ Clarence H. Burns
Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
~ Clive Barker
President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before.
~ Craig Kilborn
Every day I would come to set [of Swiss Army Man] going like, "How are we going to do this?".
~ Daniel Radcliffe
When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.
~ Dave Haywood
Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.
~ Don Ameche
I've always traveled, man, so I'm always out and everywhere.
~ Donnis
I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.
~ Doug Liman
Man can learn everything if he will but try.
~ E. M. Forster
I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.
~ Ed Begley, Jr.