Quotes About Exploration

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

The one that will put the first human colony on another planet is certainly the most important human on Earth. And you can judge the rest of mankind of his time by how they judge him along the way.

Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?

Time travel is awesome....And useful. That sentence had a typo when I typed it...The first time.

We live in such a special time when literally anything we can think of is possible.

One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.

I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

Reusable rockets promise much easier testing because you should usually get them back, and you can debug as you go rather than having to get everything perfect the first time.

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.

I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!

Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

We travel so much, I never adjust to time zones any more.

The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space it's through time.

I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.

It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.

If you want to be a creative person, then you're gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn't a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

Read! Study never stops because publications never stop coming in. It's read and study. And think about what you're studying. Take it apart and put it together. Ask 'why?' And know the answers.