Explorers Quote by Bill Bryson

“The thing about Magellan is the thing about all these explorers. Most of the time, they’re just determined to chase impossible things. And most…

— Morgan Matson

I feel a lot like Magellan. You know - the great explorer during the Age of Exploration.

— Madison Cawthorn

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

— Joe Laurie Jr

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“what motivated explorers? What inspired Magellan, battered by South America’s strange williwaw winds, to hold to his course through an unknown strait with no…

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth—no matter how small—left to…

— Paulo Coelho

In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla…

— Wernher von Braun

“Every good operative knows that the world is small, but the planet is big.”

— Ally Carter

“Yes, it was possible that the little world, on its voyage among all the stars, might become like that; a boat on which one…

— Willa Cather

“I'm an explorer," said Coraline.”

— Neil Gaiman

“He was on the lookout, and if the chance presented itself, he was going to be off on a little detour of his own…

— Max Nowaz