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.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

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.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake. As a person, I’m fairly uncomplicated.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

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

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

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

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don’t know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

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.

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.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.