Quotes About Exploration

Enjoy yourself out there... in the asylum.

Asking questions gives you significant power.

According to legend, Path Kethona was first visited by Forerunners during our greatest period of exploration, over ten million years ago. Yet there was substantial doubt that voyage had ever happened. Records had long ago vanished. Not even Haruspis, entrusted with studying the Domain, could access those memories.

Desert and Death Valley were the Mecca and Al Medina

I'll go see what's in the building," she said. "Maybe it's somebody like me, somebody smarter who knows about electricity. Tomorrow morning I'll go see.

Sparkling lakes and rivers on Earth … pictures of Thierry riding his solar-powered yacht around the world. That sort of thing. All very attractive to a Moon girl." "Did

The Benefactors could not have known our character before you sent your ships into the Earth's system…

Living things see only the surface, can't exist in the depths. Life is painted on the surface of the real. Death is the great unexplored volume. Death rises from the inaccessible, depth and death sounding so much alike … There

What are Captain

As the late John Keel said, "To hell with the answer. What is the question?"     Alien

learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

In space, distance was time, and time was distance.

With their ship, the Horse, They ply the sea of grass, They stalk the walking mountains, With stones they make their beds.

They find no need and therefore have had no practice in explaining to someone like myself who starts out thinking of a voyage as a process in which everything is fixed except the voyager.

she'd discovered three with their programs intact; one of them, to her delight, had been a flight simulator.

and doesn't know quite what to do with it. I dig in.

The psychedelics are a powerful educational tool. They are the surest way to learn the arbitrariness of our ordinary perception. Many of us have had to use them to find out how little we knew.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. —ANAÏS NIN

the land of ideas, you are always renting.

She could hear crew footsteps thumping in the corridors above.

For Shackleton, self-promotion had been essential all the way. He had paid all his expenses with media tie-ins, one way or another: auctioning off news and picture rights before he left, taking special postage stamps along to be franked at the south pole. After he made it, his bestseller had nine translations. He spruced up his expedition ship into a museum and charged admission.

the Ocean of Night (1977) Across the Sea of Suns (1984) Great Sky River (1987) Tides of Light (1989) Furious Gulf (1994) Sailing Bright Eternity (1995)

Freeman murmured at his elbow, "Let him go. I'm working on an even bigger nuclear rocket, called Orion. We might take a cruise out to Saturn on it by the 1980s or

Gregory Benford