Quotes about Exploration

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.

I don't think God puts us on this earth so we can be afraid of stepping into the unknown. Isn't tomorrow an unknown even if we all stay right here where tradition is kept and every piece of ground is familiar?

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

In general, in my life, one of the coolest things that I've been able to do is to go to different places and meet different people and see how they view the world and to learn what their music is and what their language is, and the food they eat and everything. That idea of the beauty of the vastness of the world has just been my life.

Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.

There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

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.

We must be careful not to be so scared of getting out on a limb that we never get up the tree.