Quotes About Exploration

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

Always use the word "impossible" with the greatest of caution.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I am doing.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there [space]. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I have learned to use the world 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

Fish don't fly, birds don't swim, find out what you're capable of, before you want to be.

Going far without moving.

Realize yourself to not have to renew happiness by doing the same thing every day."

You will never find a new place by following the trail of others.

anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

Beliefs are walls. Questions are doors.

we are going to enter a new world.

don't be the smartest person in the room, its corollary is: if you look around and see that you are the smartest person in the room, find a new room.* This is the only way you keep growing and challenging yourself to be the most interesting human you can be.

Listen, Q, don't know who you've been talking to, but in Starfleet, we save the universe and fuck the green alien chick twice before breakfast, every day. We've got this one, dude.

On that day, the library was transformed from a confusing and intimidating collection of books into a thousand different portals through time and space to fantastic worlds for me to explore.*