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.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

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

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

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

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

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

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

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

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.

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

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

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

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

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.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

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.

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

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

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.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

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.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

I love trying new things.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

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.

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.

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.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

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

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

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

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

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

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.