Quotes About Exploration

Would extraordinarily advanced alien beings really traverse this unimaginable gulf just to blast patterns in our cornfields, mutilate our cows, and probe our anuses? Surely they'd have better things to do.

four years to reach the nearest star.

Douglas E. Richards

Douglas E. Richards

Douglas E. Richards

I began toying with the idea of a million human worlds.

instantly see the answer.

The Tasman Sea covers about a million square miles, located more or less between Australia and New Zealand. And east of Tasmania, which is a large island with over a thousand smaller islands around it. But we aren't on any of these.

Douglas E. Richards

Douglas E. Richards

Douglas E. Richards

Douglas E. Richards

We do not live our lives and experience our existence as solved beings.

For the purpose of large sections of academia had ceased to be the exploration, discovery or dissemination of truth. The purpose had instead become the creation, nurture and propagandization of a particular, and peculiar, brand of politics. The purpose was not academia, but activism.

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

Being guided by your own thoughts and abilities, living out there on the high wire and being rewarded for it: That was the Chicago way. Nothing else counted. If it were sensational enough, whether a scientific breakthrough, a rousing new style of music, or an underworld murder, it would be celebrated.

I went to outer space," I said, "But I didn't like it.

get curious about what you don't know about yourself.

Cascadia was able to exist for so long as a single entity because no nation cared enough to take control of this distant corner of North America. Even though four countries — Russia, Spain, Britain and the United States — explored the Pacific Northwest's coastline, none claimed exclusive sovereignty over the land mass lying behind it.

If you don't know what to measure, measure anyway. You'll learn what to measure.

Know something about the world, and by this I mean the world outside of books. This might require joining the Marines, or working on an oil rig or as a hash slinger at a truck stop in Kentucky. Know what it smells like out there. If everything you write smells like a library, then your prospective audience will be limited to those who like the smell of libraries.

Light - both physical and moral - was a central concern to the men and women living in the medieval age. They attempted to explore its properties in the colors of a stained glass canopy, in the tenor of a brisk saltarello, in the lilt of a Jongleur's ballad, in the sweet savor of a banqueting table, in the rhapsody of a well planned garden, indeed, in every arena and discipline of life.

The more you read, the more you know, the more you know, the more places you will go.