Quotes About Exploration

be that children would explore, learn, and become part of their world. But now they just snap digital pictures of each other, Facebook their friends

used to search for aliens." "But if there were aliens out there," Dr. McDonald said, "this would be a great way for

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Don't think outside the box. Go box shopping. Keep trying on one after another until you find the one that catalyzes your thinking. A good box is like a lane marker on the highway. It's a constraint that liberates.

Unlike people from any other time in history, we know what we are looking at when we look up upon the night sky.

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

If you're not prepared to be wrong you'll never come up with something original." —Sir Ken Robinson4

Try not to get overwhelmed or lost in the question. Always begin by writing down what you want to discover.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? . . . We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

We love pictures, descriptions, testimonies from folks who've been there, and an idea of what there is to do once we've arrived. Without this information our excitement dims considerably, especially when the place we're thinking about lasts forever.

I'm preparing for heaven. I hope you'll join me as we go exploring our better country. What we will discover will change your life forever. So let's begin our journey of discovery together. Let's go further up and further into . . . the better country.

Say, what's the question mark for? Sexual identity?

As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

Questions are infinitely superior to answers.

A painting is never finished—it simply stops in interesting places.

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Part of what I love about traveling was the idea of vanishing from the radar for a while, even if it was just for an hour in the airport, the idea being that if I couldn't be found, then neither could my troubles find me.