Quotes About Exploration

For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

Stars are extremely far apart. We cannot imagine any way currently available to get to the nearest one, besides the sun.

You shouldn't say, 'Well, we cannot go there,' before we even had the conversation.

I want the government to focus on the stuff we cannot yet do, like beginning to learn how we can live in space long enough to go to Mars or how to build and operate human communities on the Moon and Mars.

We cannot wait for the next Kennedy to set us on our path to the stars.

We cannot do just one type of movies always.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak.

I try to listen to all music with an open head, a clear head, try not to say just because I don't know it, it's weak.

People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.

I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.

I run with a credit card and a cell phone, so when there is not a 7-Eleven around, like some of the country roads out there, I can get him to deliver a pizza to me. And I kind of give them a coordinate, a corner.

I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

I like to run in a new place to help me find my way around.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.