Quotes about Exploration

It was fun, scurrying around the breezy hills and through the beautiful canyons. There was that rare thing, novelty, about it; it was a fresh, new, exhilarating sensation, this donkey riding, and worth a hundred worn and threadbare home pleasures.

Never let school interfere with your education

His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.

I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

Ohio has produced 23 astronauts. Tell me, what is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

As a father, I would try to instill the importance of asking questions, always.

We are very very small. But we are profoundly capable of very very big things.

in 1992 came the first confirmed observation of a planet orbiting a star other than our sun.

I told him never to be afraid to come up with an idea or a hypothesis no matter how daft (his words not mine) it might seem.

for the fluctuations in the background. However, within a few years we should know whether we can believe that we live in a universe that is completely self-contained and without beginning or end.