We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

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.

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 have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

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

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

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

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

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

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

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.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

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

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.

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

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

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.

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.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

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

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

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

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.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

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.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

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.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

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.

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.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

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

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

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

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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

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

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.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

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

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.