Quotes About Exploration

When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

You're always working at the margin of what you don't understand, that's the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

My wonder button is being pushed all the time.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.

It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.