Quotes About Exploration

I've being doing some stuff overseas. I got the opportunity to go to New Japan a couple of times.

If I were to do something here in Australia that did travel overseas, for sure, I would like to work anywhere in the world.

Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the 'overview effect,' return to Earth, and then impact their communities.

I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.

The opposite approach would be to encourage people to make some errors. You do this by asking your folks on occasion what dead-end roads they've been down

More often than not, wisdom is at the mercy of curiosity.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

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That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

Friedrich Nietzsche said, "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

you are not limited to only what you have been able to do before.

The key is to be quick and dirty—exploring a range of ideas without becoming too invested in only one.

We didn't know as children that we were creative. We just knew that it was okay for us to try experiments that sometimes succeeded and sometimes falied. That we could keep creating, keep tinkering, and trust that something interesting would result if we just stuck with it

There is so much more than we can see, there is so much more that we can be.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guessing what was at the other side of the hill.'" —Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.

Sometimes I think the cover of a book as a door to another world...but other times I think of it as an escape hatch from this one. I guess it's the same thing.

He says that all that happens when you go far, far away is that you discover you've brought yourself along.

the kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio...