Quotes About Exploration

If. The smallest word, which raises the biggest questions.

along a long narrow passageway, which opened into a hall, and they saw

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

Forbes did, in fact, break new ground for women...She was an irrepressible and independent traveler who took risky and difficult trips, braved the hostility of the colonial officials and bureaucrats of the British empire, and invaded the male sphere of exploration, using charm, chutzpah--and her extensive network of establishment connections--to get where she wanted to go. (From the Sahara to Samarkand: Selected Travel Writings of Rosita Forbes, 1919-1937)

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

To move to a new place -- that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you -- all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.

The history of American spaceflight is a history of doing less than had been planned, less than had been hoped for.

If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eight years, about how it changed me to see the space-scarred Columbia capsule in a museum as a child, about how we came in peace for all mankind.

And now the sound comes toward us: bassy, crackly, like a fireworks display that never lets up. The sound goes right through you, and if you have become too emotionally involved in the space program, this sound will make you cry. It's the sound of American exploration, the sound of missiles put to better use than killing or threatening to kill, a sound that means we came in peace for all mankind.

People care about the unutterable awe of American heroes stabbing into the heavens on columns of fire.

lot of agility, adaptability, a natural propensity toward curiosity, an insatiable appetite for that and this and this and that!

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits." With all our different interests, we definitely can't allow ourselves to get stuck in that trap: We need to design a multifaceted life big enough to accommodate our Renaissance Souls.

Halte du ein Ende des Fadens, mit dem anderen in der Hand wandere ich durch die Welt. Und falls ich mich verlaufe, meine Mama, ziehe.

Oh, and Fionn's down there trying to teach her frog to talk. Away you go, Corr.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have. We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler