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Quotes About Exploration

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
~ John Locke
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth
~ Christopher Wren
If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.
~ Gregory Colbert
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.
~ Scott Carpenter
Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.
~ Charles Fillmore
I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
~ Emperor Hirohito
Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.
~ Jamie Luner
I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"
~ William Langewiesche
Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.
~ Gene Cernan
I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
~ Umberto Guidoni
Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.
~ Gene Roddenberry
The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.
~ Roald Amundsen
We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.
~ Gene Cernan
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
~ Dylan Thomas
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'
~ Werner Heisenberg
The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.
~ Chris Hadfield
See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.
~ Deepak Chopra
And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.
~ Treat Williams
When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
~ Damien Rice
And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.
~ Peter Shaffer
If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.
~ Dale Carnegie
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
~ Baltasar Gracian