Quotes About Exploration

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

I'm very curious, I guess, as a human being.

Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

One of the coolest things to me about living in space was it really caused me to think about how the human body and mind can adapt to completely different environments.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

It's only human nature to want to know what you can do on your own or with someone else.

All my work is always that exploration of human nature.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

Gosh, for me, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I was just starting to understand ideas and film and things like that. And then, you go see a movie like 'The Matrix' that absolutely blows your mind. It's not just trying to entertain you, but it's also trying to explore something about human nature and ask some really deep questions.

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

I like stories about the world, where we're at. I like to explore humanity. I like to explore my own humanity.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children.

Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better.

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.

I think humans are migratory animals.