Quotes About Exploration

Arthur C. Clarke

Shuttling back and forth in the equatorial plane where the brilliant stars of Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto - worlds that elsewhere would have counted as planets in their own right, but which here were merely satellites of a giant master.

When you all have figgered out how to sail across space to our shores, you'll find yourselves just as welcome as the people who come to your shores.

Tiempo atrás Norton había llegado a la convicción de que a algunas mujeres no debería permitírseles viajar en las naves espaciales; la ingravidez tenía efectos sobre sus senos que resultaban demasiado perturbadores.Ya era

It still seemed incredible that one man could have done so much with such primitive equipment. But Cook had been not only a supreme navigator, but also a scientist and—in an age of brutal discipline—a humanitarian. He treated his own men with kindness, which was unusual; what was quite unheard of was that he behaved in exactly the same way to the often hostile savages in the new lands he discovered.

One by one she would cut through the orbits of Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion... worlds bearing the names of gods and goddesses who had vanished only yesterday, as time was counted here.

In their explorations, they encountered life in many forms and watched the workings of evolution on a thousand worlds. They saw how often the first faint sparks of intelligence flickered and died in the cosmic night. And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And

And history could never take from him the privilege of being the first of all mankind to gaze upon the works of an alien civilization.

classical Hohmann orbit—

I'm lighting a cigarette—I've always wanted to smoke in a space suit.

Arthur C. Clarke

You," said Stormgren, "have been reading too much science-fiction.

I'm only an ex-astronomer;

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them.

The stars are not for Man.

I've murdered something beautiful, Jimmy told himself. But then Rama had killed him.

By mapping out possible futures, as well as a good many improbable ones, the science fiction writer does a great service to the community. He encourages in his readers flexibility of mind, readiness to accept and even welcome change—in one word, adaptability. Perhaps no attribute is more important in this age.

Sometimes, Jean thought a little wearily, he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: "a noise surrounded by dirt.

well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Vastitas Borealis

One of them was Moon-Watcher; once again he felt inquisitive tendrils creeping down the unused byways of his brain.

The time had not yet come when Man could leave his mark upon the Solar System.

British Interplanetary Society.

New knowledge—new wisdom—in realms we have never dreamed of before. It may lure us away from the dangers we have encountered: for certainly nothing we can learn from Nature will ever be as great a threat as the peril we have uncovered in our own minds.