Quotes About Exploration

Your time may be limited, but your imagination is not.

The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

Once the Europeans become interested in you they make it a point to learn everything they can about your personal and professional life.

I know there are many things California can offer - personally, professionally, meteorologically - that New York can't. It sounds awesome.

I have friends who ended up playing professionally in the Middle East and Europe.

Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are.

I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that have no answers.

There's nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It's profoundly satisfying.

Cassini was so profoundly, scientifically successful. It's amazing to me, even, what we were able to do right up until the end.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.

I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

I'm following my interests, and there's something about investigating the world and creating a watchable, entertaining programme out of it that is deeply satisfying.

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

Radio 3 shows such as 'Between the Ears' also make the kind of podcasts that draw the most from your noise-cancelling headphones. The programme commissions ideas that make adventurous use of sound.

I suppose there wasn't a well-worn path into the British space programme because we didn't really have a space programme. Dad was one of the pioneers of it.

I used to watch a programme about Route 66 in America, and it looked so fun.