Old men ought to be explorers.

I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need…

— Susan Hockfield

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged…

— Jean Batten

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found…

— Peter S. Beagle

“no one can absolutely control the direction of his life; but each person can certainly influence it. The armchair explorers who complain that they…

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not…

— George Bernard Shaw

From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived…

— John Goddard

The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his…

— Irving Fisher

He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

— Michael Harner

The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back…

— Wernher von Braun

There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a…

— Brad Meltzer

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed…

— Alan Dean Foster

Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

— Anonymous

The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear…

— Henry David Thoreau

“the Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members…

— Terry Pratchett