Exploration Quotes · Page 15

“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for…

— Patrick Ness

I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory…

— Gerry Anderson

We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but…

— Nathan Myhrvold

It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.…

— Terence McKenna

The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the…

— Steve Jurvetson

...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep…

— Edward Forbes

The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries…

— Heinz Pagels

Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social,…

— E. O. Wilson

Summer is meant to be for travel, for exploration, for leisure, but sometimes budgets and schedules dictate otherwise.

— Rumaan Alam

It's really the rare creator who can tell you where he's going to end the season of 22 episodes. That's not bad.…

— Kevin Reilly

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be…

— Helen Sharman

The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft…

— Carolyn Porco

In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space…

— Burt Rutan

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

— Larry Niven

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

— Buzz Aldrin

I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I’ll give you everything until I collapse. That’s not in any…

— Ellen Page

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

— John F. Kennedy

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom.…

— Alison Gopnik

Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place…

— Lisa Unger

There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose.…

— Vikram Sarabhai

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more…

— John L. Phillips

To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that…

— Paul J. H. Schoemaker

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

— Alfred de Vigny

In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting…

— Buzz Aldrin