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.

Not all those who wander are lost.

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

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

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.

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

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

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

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

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.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

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.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

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

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.

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

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

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

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

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

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

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

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

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

We fly to 106 kilometers. We’ve always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn’t want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you’re an astronaut or not.

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

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

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.

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

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

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

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

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

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.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

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

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

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

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

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.

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

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