Quotes About Exploration

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?

Der Punkt ist, dass Feldexkursionen häufig eher ein Versuch des Forschers sind, eigene, sehr persönliche Probleme zu lösen, als dass sie dem Bemühen entspringen andere Kulturen zu verstehen.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Stories are breadcrumbs "Just follow the trail of books and you will find me lost among galaxies of scorched stars and ships to Mars." -Garvey

For now, I strap on chapter four of Mars Rescue, study the console, then ease back on the throttle for a smooth flight through star fields.

Stories are breadcrumbs. Just follow the trail of books and you will find me lost among the galaxies of scorched stars and ships to Mars.

Life is like a long ride to nowhere in particular.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

I'd like to peek into the drawing room, where you sometimes see only an open door into yet another room beyond the drawing room.

If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.

It is the questions they love, the questions they say that lead to a state of wonder. Not the solutions. Not the beliefs.

place less walked on than any other spot in

there was also something in me that felt contained there; that needed a different setting in which to grow. It was perhaps a mark of my arrogance and immaturity that I believed I had to leave in order to do so.

imagination is a form of flagellation if a sensitive child lets it run wild ...

The only person to ever play golf on the moon was astronaut Alan Shepard. His golf ball was never found.

like most people of the time, that North America

Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You're not ready for it, but if you're lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you'd planned.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

We all love to discover for ourselves the causes of problems.  When we do discover for ourselves our energy really moves inside us.  When we are told the answers we might learn a little, but it is nothing like the magic of discovering things through our own questions.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.