Quotes About Exploration

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

I'm spreading my wings at last.

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

If it were possible - and I hope it will be some day - I'd like some sort of anti-gravity travel capsule: some way to travel around the without the need for jets and wings and so on.

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

Going to college is an amazing opportunity to not only learn and be book-smart but also to kind of stretch your wings and expand yourself as a human and as an artist, whatever it is you're going for.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

If you're not out there taking some risks, if you're just coasting along with your wins, then you're not really trying.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.

I'm a kid from a small town in West Texas, and I've gotten to travel the world. I got to live all over the world.

Even in Texas, there's a lot of people who've never been to Lubbock.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw exploration... We're not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch.

The world itself is already a great textbook.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.