I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere,… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy. — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century. — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
