Quotes About Exploration

There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No—it is Robinson Crusoe.

Il est facile de choisir les rideaux les plus jolis, les meubles les plus parfaits, de faire les seuls mouvements d'appareil possibles, si l'on sait d'avance que J'on est doué pour ça. De la part d'un artiste, trop bien se connaître, c'est un peu céder à la facilité. Ce qui est difficile, au contraire, c'est d'avancer en terre inconnue, de reconnaître le danger, de prendre des risques, d'avoir peur.

Maybe it's fate Hound ate the map. Maybe we'll discover something wonderful while we're lost.

Rosalind had found

Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

That's the problem with the finite. You can open only one door at a time, and you'll never know what was behind the door you didn't open.

If it hurts so much that you have to bubble-wrap your body, maybe you should play something different.

it takes real courage to go where you have not gone before.

Don't Regret... You Don't Know till You Go.

There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.

They also remind us of the importance of the imagination.

My feet have several thousand meetings scheduled with the dirt on a trail not far from here. Who am I to keep them waiting? Time to run.

Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable.

Af en toe levensgrote paranoia creëren verleent aan een tocht een bepaalde, aantrekkelijke dimensie, die mij soms aanzet de gekste situaties te bedenken.

Vauxhall. I like to use the public housing a few blocks away for my little adventures.

often started in a different hemisphere.

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.

If it ain't broken then lets damn well try and break it.

Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

There are deeper reasons to travel—itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.