Quotes About Exploration

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

It wouldn't be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but once capitalism got there it would finish the planet

wouldnt be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but once capitalism got there it would finish the planet.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Nuorten velvollisuus on erehtyä! Millaisia nuoria ne muuten olisivat?

Corto Maltese:"L'Eldorado di Raleigh, la Città d'Oro di Orellana, il regno favoloso di Cibola del Coronado... sono fatti della stessa sostanza dei sogni. E' sorprendente vedere uomini di cultura come lei interessarsi a simili storie..." Levi Colombia:"I sogni sono d'oro, la realtà è di piombo...

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.

Progress is not motivated by money. Progress comes from those who are happy to embark on a course of action without quite knowing where it will lead, without doing a feasibility study, without fear of failure or too much hope of reward.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see, this book is the child of such homesickness.

No individual is solely reflective, emotional, active, or experimental, and different life situations call for different resources to be brought into play. Most people will, on the whole, find travel on one road more satisfactory than on others and will consequently tend to keep close to it; but Hinduism encourages people to test all four and combine them as best suits their needs.

Enjoy your Life to the fullest , 'cause this is the time to see the world ; This time wont again again.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Excellence is the gateway to an infinite world of possibilities

Juan de Grijalva, coincidentally the first European to smoke on continental American soil

Two of its members, Rodrigo de Jerez and the interpreter Luis de Torres, had even gone so far as to try the custom for themselves, thus becoming the first Europeans to smoke tobacco.

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.

Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.

The Falls of the Tsangpo had offered turn-of-the-century explorers a geographical quest to rival the search for the headwaters of the Nile. But the Tibetans—who knew of it already—did not view the falls as a topographical trophy but as a sacrament, a threshold between the physical universe and the world of the spirit.