Exploration Quotes

451 Exploration quotes by 356 unique authors

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon? — Leonard Nimoy
I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea… — F. R. Scott
This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar… — Alan Stern
It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours. — Alan Stern
... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those… — John F. Kennedy
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years… — John F. Kennedy
We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share. — John F. Kennedy
Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our… — John F. Kennedy
As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss… — David M. Brown
I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at… — David M. Brown
The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride… — David M. Brown
Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely… — Wally Schirra
You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's… — Joseph P. Allen
We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk… — Anatoly Berezovoy
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the… — Arthur C. Clarke
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given… — Johannes Kepler
Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory… — Alfred Worden
The choice is: the Universe...or nothing. — H.G. Wells
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine? — Jimi Hendrix
Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun. — Robert Hunter
I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath longer now and… — Eugenie Clark
In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay… — William Beebe
... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where… — William Beebe
A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States… — Alexander Agassiz
...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep… — Edward Forbes

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