Exploration Quotes

“I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.”

“Every book is a new door to a new world.”

“We have now seen the whole of the east coast of New Holland... and may now be able to give some account of its produce and people.”

“Southern Arabia is, from a geographical and ethnological point of view, one of the most interesting corners of the globe.”

“I'd do it again. I was exploring a system. I was a neophyte. I was learning a system. The phone company is a system. A computer is a system, do you understand? If I do what I do, it is only to explore a system.”

“I'd like to be remembered as a musician who was adventurous.”

“Mars is there, waiting to be reached.”

“We were explorers, not criminals.”

“Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA get all the money?”

“So far the botanist has been successful, beyond his most sanguine expectations.”

“I have been to the Pole and I shall prove it.”

“The object of our journey to Mashonaland was to investigate the ruins of the great Zimbabwe, about which so many mysterious tales have been told.”

“I'm always searching for the new, the different.”

“If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me from visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.”

“There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.”

“When ships to sail the void between the stars have been invented, there will also be men who are not afraid of the void.”

“The land of the Amazons is a world of its own.”

“We are going back to the moon, but we're going back to learn, to live, to work, to create, in order to go to Mars.”

“Inside the pyramids, it's so dark and mysterious.”

“Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA get all the attention?”