Quotes About Exploration

By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

I've had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.

Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.

Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

There are fit men everywhere, so I'm working my way through them, one at a time!