Quotes About Exploration

There's a symmetry of blissfulness about Mongolia. It was a real privilege to be there.

Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

Restrictiveness is not synonymous with food.

The arts investigate the properties of the world by playing with materials - such as stone, paint, fabric, synthetic substances, the human body, the human voice and of course language.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn't work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Why would you need to expand beyond the solar system if you already have access to all the information you need, and you've essentially insulated yourself against a planetary apocalypse? Maybe that's enough.

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

Most of the oceans in the Solar System are deep beneath ice shelves.

If there's no limit to how big the entropy can get, then you can start anywhere, and from that starting point, you'd expect entropy to rise as the system moves to explore larger and larger regions of phase space.

We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin.

I love my fans in Pakistan for being so kind and letting me be myself. Along this journey of exploring myself and a new world out here, I'm always going to make them proud, too. They're my constant support system.

Just as computer science is missing from our school system, so is science fiction.

Most of the solar system resides beyond the orbits of the asteroids. There is more to learn there about general planetary processes than on Mars.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.

We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.

Another thing I noticed as the children wrote was how often they changed their viewing perspectives. A child rarely looks at his world straight on. He lies flat on his back in the middle of a field, or peeks out from a hiding place, or climbs a tree and watches the scene from above.

Reading is often thought of as a form of escapism, and it's a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself...