I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

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

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

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

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.

If you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.

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.

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

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

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

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.

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

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

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

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.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

I’ll stay in Memphis.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

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.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

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.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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

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.

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

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

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

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

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 never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

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.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.