Quotes About Exploration

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

Bridgeport? Said I. Camelot, Said he.

The nomadic instinct is a human instinct;

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

I never let school get in the way of my education!

You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

Hello Huckleberry! Hello, yourself, and see how you like it. What's that you got? Dead cat. Lemme see him, Huck. My, he's pretty stiff. Where'd you get him? Bought him off'n a boy.

Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.

Don't let school get in the way of your education.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity.