Quotes About Curiosity

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be on other planets. And if we remove the mystery of life, then I think it is a little bit easier for us to think about how we live, and how perhaps we're not as special as we always think we are.

The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

When you look at the darkest areas in space, you feel that there's something out there that we don't know about.

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

The time will come when we permit more people in space.

I think the more people that can go up to space and look back is great, but it's not just this overview and look back effect. There's also a lot of concrete gains from getting more people up in space.

Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.

I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.

It's so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.

I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I learned that space exploration was real. I wanted to get involved in that. I knew I wanted to be a scientist.

When I was in kindergarten, I remember looking at picture books of the space shuttle.

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

I think every time we send a spacecraft to an asteroid or comet, we learn more.

I think that, a lot of times, people have this idea that the solar system is entirely explored, that we have sent spacecraft to every planet, we've taken beautiful pictures of everything, and that it's kind of done.

Who doesn't want to fly around in a spaceship?