Quotes About Exploration

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

Colonization is the key to our race's survival. It's as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.

He was determined to be the most touristy tourist who had ever touristed

Never forget to factor in the Oort cloud

Who are you, who is so wise in the way of alien fungus?

On the sixth day, Jared and the rest of the 8th finally figured out what that sex thing was all about. On the seventh day, and as a direct consequence of the sixth day, they rested.

Well, 'explode' maybe isn't the most accurate term. What actually happens is much more interesting.

One day I'd like to visit this planet without having to toss myself down its atmosphere.

The goal shouldn't be to make your child eat an entire set of encyclopedias by the age of six. The goal should be to encourage your child to be curious—to want to learn about the world, and explore the things that are in it.

I do have a sense of adventure," I said. "It's overawed by my sense of self-preservation.

They found no colonists, but they found parts of them. And a lot of blood.

You see tools and parts and my arm shoved inside a small spacecraft, and you really have to ask what I'm doing?

Your friend Leon certainly didn't join to be in the military - he can't stand the people we will protect. People join because they're not ready to die and they don't want to be old. They join because life on Earth isn't interesting past a certain age. Or they join to see someplace new before they die. That's why I joined, you know. I'm not joining to fight or be young again. I just want to see what it's like to be somewhere else .

Capitalism had made it to space and was doing reasonably well.

Welcome to the fucking universe! The universe is a fucked-up place, my friends.

This man had gone to new places, met new races and exterminated them on sight. He looked all of twenty-three years old.

Here's one way to colonize: You take two hundred or three hundred people, allow them to pack what supplies they see fit, drop them off on the planet of their choice, say "see you," and then come back a year later—after they've all died of malnutrition brought on by ignorance and lack of supplies, or have been wiped out by another species who wants the place for themselves—to pick up the bones. This isn't a very successful way to colonize.

Pensé que había muerto y estaba en el cielo. Como estaba oficialmente difunto en la Tierra y volaba por el sistema solar en una nave espacial, supongo que no andaba muy desencaminado.

When you find them, blow them up a little for me.

But my car upholstery was a small price to pay for interplanetary peace.

What happens if the plan doesn't work and our ships are shot out of the sky?" I asked. "Well, then I suppose we're fucked, Perry

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We all looked. "Mate, those look like fossilized turds," Kahurangi said. "That's why we call them poopfruit, yes," Tom said. "You need to talk to your marketing people," I suggested. "They taste better than they look." "They would have to, wouldn't they?

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder." "Spoken like a true Boy Scout," Harry said. "A Boy Scout wouldn't need to pee as much as I do," I said. "Sure he would," Harry said. "Just give him sixty years.