Exploration Quotes

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not...

I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in ...

But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for wh...

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges....

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

How many extraordinary phenomena like this, so foreign to human comprehension, might lie concealed i...

Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, i.e. with the recognition that nature has somehow...

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an explo...

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was ...

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, f...

A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a wh...

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 ge...

We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipw...

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we ...

The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resu...

Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Univer...

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victim...

Once upon a time, we soared into the Solar System. For a few years. Then we hurried back. Why? What ...

Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationa...

The symbolism seemed so apt. The same technology that can propel apocalyptic weapons from continent ...

There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasin...

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I wou...

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetr...

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we...

If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical ...

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonie...

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things...

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science a...

It is possible to be too stable. No Outer World has colonized a new planet in two and a half centuri...

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will ta...

Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral...

But first whom shall we sendIn search of this new world, whom shall we findSufficient? Who shall tem...

But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a fl...

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and e...

The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,” he said in that dry factual tone, and everyone stared ...

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, o...

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practic...

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay d...

You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a j...

The map? I will first make it.

The map? I will first make it.

The map? I will first make it.

The map? I will first make it.