Exploration Quotes

451 quotes by 356 authors

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the… — Robert Falcon Scott
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life. — Jules Verne
If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it. — Poul Anderson
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty,… — Ashley Montagu
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. — Robert Aris Willmott
Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the… — Roy Chapman Andrews
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people have… — Mae Jemison
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle
NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years. — Robert Ballard
Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas. — Robert Ballard
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now… — Robert Ballard
My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars… — Robert Ballard
When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we… — Neil Armstrong
Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. — Charles Duke
Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over. — Charles Duke
Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number… — Neil Armstrong
Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over. — Charles Duke
We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity,… — Buzz Aldrin
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon.… — George Steiner

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