Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

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.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

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

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Not all those who wander are lost.

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.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

Science is magic that works.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

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

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

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

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

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

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.

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.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

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

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

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.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

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

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

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

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.