Quotes About Exploration

this is just the

The Bible says, "Seek, and ye shall find," he thought. And said aloud to the vibrant air, "But there's no guarantee about what you'll find, is there?

we might as well be afloat as earthbound, the heave and fall beneath me the rise of planking, and the sound of the pines the wind in our sails.

THE MAN IN THE WOOD

Getting up once in the dark to go adventuring is a lark. Twice in two days smacks of masochism. No

All right. Where are we going?

along. It was a week after we had set out, in a

And it was a fine day, one fit for birdsong, rambling the woods, and maybe fishing a bit near sunset.

We camped for the night in a hollow near a good-sized creek—one big enough for trout. Jamie and Ian waded into this with enthusiasm, harrying the finny denizens with whippy rods cut from black willow.

Restlessly, I moved around the surgery, picking things up and putting them down again.

Don't be afraid of unimagined possibilities; imagine the possibilities and then imagine what you'll do about them.

You invent yourself," I said softly, to the shadows inside the hair that had fallen over my face. "You look at other women—or men; you try on their lives for size. You take what you can use, and you look inside yourself for what you can't find elsewhere. And always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you wonder if you're doing it right.

Some people might say, 'Can we afford it?' I think that's asking the wrong question... We should instead be asking, 'Can we really afford not to try?'

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn't we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like?

VCs are good at asking questions.

There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it's a pretty cool job.

Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.

I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.

What guy didn't want to be an astronaut growing up?