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

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

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

You learn a lot from traveling around.

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.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

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.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

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.

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.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

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

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

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

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

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.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

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.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

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

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.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

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 American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

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

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

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.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

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.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

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.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

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

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.