Quotes About Exploration

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Una rata que está dentro de un laberinto es libre de ir a cualquier sitio, siempre que permanezca dentro del laberinto.

Being able to read and write did not provide the answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.

To wonder is to begin to know

There'll be a demand for campgrounds and hiking trails.

I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction

Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation and discovery and reverie.

Too much of the world was inhospitable, intractable... Why prove that it had ever once been green?

I know now that to die without tasting this is truly not to have lived. In this, and this only, have we lived: to feel all, to dare all, to try all.

On a voyage of exploration, how can you price what you'll find before you even set sail?

Questions are the heart and soul of constructive conflict. They open up the exploration, bring in new information, and reframe debate. When

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

building fires in the rain, tracking animals and finding water.

People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.

Science clears the fields on which technology can build.

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.