Quotes on Exploration

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.

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

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

What's so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It's the safe place that we, as a culture, can deal with things that upset and frighten us - the darker side of our nature.

Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you'll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.

When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much money,' I say, 'I absolutely agree with you. But I still hope we do it.'

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe without fear of social or political or religious reprisals.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, & to truly see that impossible is just a word.

I have a strong feeling about interesting people in space exploration. . . . And the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space.

Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life.

As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.