Quotes About Exploration

You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!

John Dewey, the American philosopher, understood this: The very idea of democracy, the meaning of democracy, must be continually explored afresh; it has to be constantly discovered and rediscovered, remade and reorganized; while the political and economic and social institutions in which it is embodied have to be remade and reorganized to meet the changes that are going on in the development of new needs on the part of human beings and new resources for satisfying these needs.

Do not only travel the world Travel the Universe as well.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (A Shadow Passes)

Ma-ma-oo didn't gun the motor so we puttered along. The day promised to be a scorcher, but out on the ocean with the spray cooling on my face and the wind drying it away, the heat was bearable. I wished summer would never end. I wished I could do this all year and never have to go back to school. I wished I could pick berries and go fishing with Ma-ma-oo and spend all my days wandering.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

"Over the MountainsOf the Moon,Down the Valley of the Shadow,Ride, boldly ride,"The shade replied—"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural… We should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

People asked us, "Do you read history?" "No," I answered. "We are too busy making it.

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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

When the KH-13s weren't imaging, the hydrazine-powered thrusters kept them high enough to reduce atmospheric drag.

Ideas carried out stimulate more ideas.

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Over hill, over dale, we have hit the dusty trailAnd those caissons go rolling along.

flourishing comes from the experience of the new: new situations, new problems, new insights, and new ideas to develop and share.

The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide, But forth vnto the darksome hole he went, And looked in:his glistring armor made A litle glooming light, much like a shade

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

There is nothing lost, but may be found, if sought. (No hay nada perdido, que no pueda encontrarse, si se lo busca)