Quotes About Exploration

Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind.

I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was on television, and there really was no going back for me at that point, and then I went on to study space science and then get my Ph.D., then go aboard and work in the European Space Agency.

As a child, I have always wanted to have my fingers in many pies, and working on television was always on my checklist.

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

In the second season, usually television shows are running with the characters; they really get them. And then, the third season, they can push characters and really explore secondary storylines and things like that. And so I tend to like third seasons of most shows.

If I tell you there's cheese on the moon, bring the crackers.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

My favourite lessons in college were when we would have a professional teach us, or when we went out of the classroom for the day. You take in so much more when someone who's been there and done it is telling you.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.