Quotes About Exploration

Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be.

Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.

Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit!

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.

Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!

Let's make our own way, ' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.