Quotes About Exploration

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. [IRC discussion at Scifi.com, 1 November 1996]

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming.

But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.

I did have a thing for mazes. When I was a kid, I remember drawing little mazes constantly and puzzles. I loved that.

Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist.

I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could.

I already find pyramids from space. Is there anything cooler than that?

I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru.

There are still many places I haven't seen that I'd like to travel to. I've never seen the Pyramids, and I'd love to explore the culture in North India. I think walking in the Andes would also be awesome.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

I'm a qualified Professional Association of Diving Instructors Divemaster.

Just so we're clear, Mark Watney is who I want to be. He has all the qualities I like about myself magnified without any of the qualities I dislike. Mark Watney isn't afraid to fly.

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.

'Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market.

Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

I am fascinated by quantum physics.