We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I love trying new things.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don’t know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The one thing that ‚Via Dolorosa‘ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.