Quotes About Exploration

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

we'll find your treasure." Shifting his head, he pressed

By reframing and redefining what the information space is, we unlock new possibilities

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It's what he asks.

Earth stuff, Mars boy.

But, yeah, it was a totally weird place, looking back. But the right kind of weird. Good weird. The nuns had a lot of freedom. We read Carl Sagan before the Old Testament.

She had always had a streak of recklessness about her, a willingness to go chasing hurricanes and tsunamis, all in the name of science, always willing to go that bit further than anybody else. Disaster hunting, she called it, surfing the extreme weather.

Stephen Baxter

Just like the Spanish on Earth in pursuit of gold, the twenty-second-century conquistadors of RDA, are here in pursuit of unobtainium, and have come face to face with hunter-gatherers of the forest

Colonists of, ah, Per Ardua, meet your autonomous colonisation unit!

Stephen Baxter

But the Moon has its own intrinsic geography.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

Space is for the cephalopods, Maura. It never was meant for us.

Stephen Baxter

Maybe it doesn't have to be the way Jake Sully bleakly summarized it to Eywa. Maybe there is a way for us to keep the Earth green, without giving up our civilization and all the benefits it brings: by using the resources of space.

Earth was the first planet to be terraformed.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions, which is just as well, or it wouldn't be much of a career path, would it?

Stephen Baxter

Because it's there. -George Mallory, one of the first climbers to attempt Everest, when asked why he wanted to climb it. (He disappeared into a cloud near the summit in 1924, where his body was found in 1999.)

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.

Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.