Quotes About Exploration

Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

The journey is the treasure.

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.

I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I'd found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.

The surprising thing is where I'd found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend.

Thanks to dreams, in the history of the galaxy the world has been reinvented more often than there are stars.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

I feel now as though I've been sitting all my life inside a box, and suddenly someone is lifting the lid and I can look up and see the stars.

Not surprisingly, the kitchen was the most interesting, but only because I discovered a package of Oreos in the cupboard.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is.

As Freya Stark herself had put it: 'To be treated with consideration is, in the case of female travellers, too often synonymous with being prevented from doing what one wants.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Down to the Plymouth Rock, that had been to their feet as a doorstep Into a world unknown -- the cornerstone of a nation!

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others.

For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.

Here we are and there we go:---but where?