Quotes About Exploration

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Space has always been confusing to politics.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

Heresy makes for progress.

Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.

Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

Always make new mistakes.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.