Quotes About Exploration

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'

Voyager's passage through Saturn's inner system exposed diverse moons with dynamic forces at work. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, whose surface remained invisible through its thick, ubiquitous haze, nonetheless teased observers with hints of a possible ocean of liquid hydrocarbons.

I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.

I don't know a lot about mountaineering. I once went walking in the Lake District with the legendary climber Chris Bonington and had to have emergency physio afterwards to regain sensation in my thighs.

The Martian atmosphere is very thin. It's like our atmosphere at 100,000 feet.

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

Taking risks is the best thing ever, and that's what gets you anywhere.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I am always looking forward to learn new things in my life.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven't planned, that's when the film comes alive.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.