exploration quotes

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

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.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

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

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

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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

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.

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

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

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.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

I love trying new things.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

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

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.

Not all those who wander are lost.

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.

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.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

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’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

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

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

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

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

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.

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

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

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.

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

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

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

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.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

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.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

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

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

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