Quotes About Exploration

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

When we think of Space, when we begin to understand the Martian, we know we must send a black woman on that ship. She is the one who will weather the journey; she will find a song. When she arrives on Mars she will be the one who will greet the life form

In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

Great-Uncle Powell, an archaeologist, had spent most of his time digging about in foreign parts.

Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.

Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less alone.

Where do dreams come from? ...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.

Margery Allingham

Up the well known creek

Todo viaje hombre adentro tiene su contrapartida, es decir, el viaje mujer afuera.

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

I love traveling, because your escaping into life instead of hiding from it.

I love traveling, because you're escaping into life instead of hiding from it.

strive to be comfortable in chaos and complexity. Be as a shaman who walks in many worlds.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

We are our own terra incognita, the country on maps where dragons lurk.

Men were strictly for pleasure and for experimenting with versions of the self.

In late June they arrived in Independence, Missouri, on a stretch of the Missouri River known for its "jumping-off places" — settlements where emigrants met traveling companions or killed time until their parties arrived, before heading west.

in early 1854 Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple was sent to map a route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Whipple was a thirty-seven-year-old West Point graduate from Massachusetts, known for his competence and conscientiousness

Traveling with more than a hundred men, from engineers, cartographers, and geologists to astronomers, meteorologists, and botanists, as well as soldiers and guides, Whipple trudged through present-day Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, into what would become Arizona, on a path that vaguely foreshadowed today's Route 66. The group was guided along the way by Indians — Creeks, Shawnees, and Zunis. But it was the Mohaves who would lead Whipple on the final leg of the journey.2 On

Mistakes are expected, respected, and investigated

friend. Then he had an idea...

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.