Quotes About Exploration

In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.

I've gone on a research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean before. I was sick for the entire week after that.

I've always had a deep connection with the ocean, and could never see myself landlocked.

I don't think you can ever get closer to the natural world, than just a man - as in mankind - in an ocean, just you and it. It's not about conquering the ocean, it's about working with it.

I'm scared of heights and I'm scared of the ocean.

This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

I'm fascinated by the challenge of navigating the oceans.

Calamari isn't too bad. That's what I thought cuttlefish was gonna be that. I've eaten octopus and eel and shark and sea urchin before, and - and those are good.

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

The odds of becoming a NASA astronaut - you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.

As much as I love beach holidays, I do really like to get out and about and explore. It's why I like Los Angeles: because I can easily drive to Malibu or Santa Monica to see what they have to offer. I get itchy feet if I stay still too long in one place when I'm abroad.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

'Law & Order' was so very interesting to me because what I got to do was explore New York along with getting to work with some of the best actors New York City had to offer.

I will encourage my kids in everything that life has to offer.

Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

I want to do anything interesting that is offered to me.