Quotes About Exploration

I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed, built and launched himself in his own rocket.

The pulsar map is not dangerous at all. It will likely never even be seen by extraterrestrials.

I have not ever seen an extraterrestrial creature. That would be very cool if I did.

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

I'm very often described as a 'risk-taker' and 'extreme,' and there are a few examples of that, certainly in the physical experimentation.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

I want to explore myself in every facet.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

I have a radio show/podcast called 'The Cryptid Factor,' which is about the search for creatures that may or may not exist.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.

Even the best comedians aren't always sure what is going to be funny, what is going to work. So that means they're constantly and trying and failing in order to get there.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.