Quotes About Exploration

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it even more interesting.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

Each day is a drive through history.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.