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Quotes About Exploration

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.
~ Gordon Sinclair
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
~ Al Yankovic
The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.
~ Thomas Jefferson
[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
~ William Faulkner
Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.
~ Lu Xun
Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.
~ Enos Mills
Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.
~ Hedy Lamarr
I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.
~ W. H. Auden
Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.
~ Jay DeFeo
I hope you find what you're looking for.
~ Steve McQueen
I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people to pursue their dreams.
~ Mark Shuttleworth
The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.
~ Gene Roddenberry
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.
~ Colin Thubron
Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
~ Jimmy Carter
Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.
~ Nikola Tesla
Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.
~ Kevin Shields
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
~ Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
~ Tim Berners-Lee