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
We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never… — C JoyBell C Copy Share Image
This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The simple act of sailing had carried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities. And in the space of a… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his… — Anonymous 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
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
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
First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
“People have always looked to the horizon and feared that which they did not understand. Initially, this horizon was the edge of… — Matt Kaplan Copy Share Image
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don't think we go to new places just solely to say: "Well,… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
“There was certainly much to be said for being at the mercy of the primeval elements, to be swept along by circumstances… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people interested in space exploration tend to hear stories about the great missions, how they work technically,… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a… — David Sobel Copy Share Image
While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration.… — Alan G. Poindexter Copy Share Image
In any 'big science' enterprise, like planetary exploration, where you must work in big teams of similarly driven people, it is important… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain?… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Women are just more oriented toward feelings - and I don't mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The… — Donald A. Wollheim Copy Share Image
The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making… — Jared Spool Copy Share Image
Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
