As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty.… — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps,… — John Haines Copy Share Image
“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you… — Joseph P. Allen Copy Share Image
One of the problem with cyber is that it lends itself to preemptive action. Your assets in cyber-warfare are your opponents' vulnerabilities,… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
“Planetary exploration satisfies our inclination for great enterprises and wanderings and quests that has been with us since our days as hunters… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“While National Geographic magazine had given me a taste of the world, the three-dimensional details of this moment - the tickle of… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
It is a great thing to be at your age... You are at a very specific time of age ... an age… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew…Mars… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The truth is that exploration and enlargement make the world smaller. The telegraph and the steamboat make the world smaller. The telescope… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
His lips hovered over hers. “No,” he snarled. Madison wasn’t sure to whom he was talking, but then his mouth was crushing… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
One day I may commit to a city and settle down and do the restaurant thing - when I'm ready and however… — Kristen Kish Copy Share Image
How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ideas are amazing, without the exploration of an idea, we can never know if that idea could become a reality. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative,… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me. — Jack Dann Copy Share Image
It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul. — El Greco Copy Share Image
To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
Never walk away from an idea that makes you angry. Walk into it. Explore it. Maybe there's something for you to look… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just… — Karen O Copy Share Image
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
I think sometime we will go to Mars and I think we'll explore it with humans sometime, but I think it's really… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These… — Thomas Armstrong Copy Share Image
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image