Quotes About Exploration

We couldn't survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world.

I think people who traveled to extrasolar worlds would be on their own—far from politicians and business people, failing economies and tortured ecologies—and far from help. Well out of the shadow of their parent world.

Barbara County. My grandparents' maps helped us explore away from

Hell, I think a lot of things. And I know—I know!—that no matter how many things I think of, they won't be enough. Every time I go outside, I try to imagine what it might be like to live out there without walls, and I realize I don't know anything.

discovery rather than invention, exploration rather than creation.

Well, we're barely a nation at all anymore, but I'm glad we're still in space. We have to be going some place other than down the toilet.

The idea is that all nonmilitary space travel, manned and unmanned, should be privatized. "If it's worth doing at all," Donner said, "it should be done for profit, and not as a burden on the taxpayers." As though profit could be counted only as immediate financial gain.

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.

que busca? Tal vez busca su destino. Tal vez su destino es buscar. ...what is he searching for? Perhaps he searches for his destiny. Perhaps his destiny is to search.

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

ADVENTURES OF ISABEL Isabel

LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

Once more I struck out into the ocean of space, heading for another near star. Once more I was disappointed.

The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed ti be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the "human" spirit's manifold potentialities. Imperceptibly the young were led to discover for themselves this goal.

For our astronomers assure us that in this boundless finitude which we call the cosmos the straight lines of light lead not to infinity but to their source.

Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.

If the answer's not in front of you or behind you, remember there are four other directions to look.

She would push and push on that one question until a crack formed in the wall of her ignorance.

anywhere. There could be no new world, John

Move. Get going. Blessed is he who leaves.

They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return. And they were relieved when they got back, with a sense of having fulfilled an obligation.

the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions.