Quotes About Exploration

stupid races don't build spaceships!)

The universe will let us know—later—whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it. In

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

That's what I was trying to find out when we were rushed off on this damned safari. They have unusual intestinal flora and it may have something to do with that. But I think it has to do with the fact that they never stop growing.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too few facts and too much isolation.

Spaceships are for acrobats who are also mathematicians.

The Belt, for all its lonely reaches—or because of them—was as neighborly as a village. They gossiped among themselves, by suit radio. Out in the shining blackness it was good to know that, if something went wrong, there was a man listening not five hundred miles away who would come and investigate if you broke off and did not answer.

Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability against all competition...The Universe will let us know-later-whether Man has any right to expand through it.

That's the beauty about this business. You don't have to know anything; you just have to know where to find out.

We always trotted everywhere at Camp Arthur Currie. I never did find out who Currie was, but he must have been a trackman.

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein

We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget—but the nuggets

Terra had climbed well beyond that which its

Why it can't be done is not acceptable; I must discover how it can be done.

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.

Magic," I stated, "is a symbol for any process not understood.

No. 'Grok' is the most important word in the language—and I expect to spend years trying to understand it.

People are so used to the computer net today that it is easy to forget what a window to the world it can be—and I include myself. One can grow so canalized in using a terminal only in certain ways—paying bills, making telephonic calls, listening to news bulletins—that one can neglect its richer uses. If a subscriber is willing to pay for the service, almost anything can be done at a terminal that can be done out of bed.

Oremos por un último aterrizaje sobre el globo que nos vio nacer. Fijemos nuestros ojos en el cielo aborregado y las frescas, verdes colinas de la Tierra.

Robert A. Heinlein

To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy--and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

I haven't been in the slightest danger. Just lost. And now I'm found.

Robert A. Heinlein