Exploration Quotes

"If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?"

"I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux."

"At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards."

"The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went."

"Not all those who wander are lost."

J. R. R. Tolkien

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

André Gide

"I have not told half of what I saw."

Marco Polo

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe."

Jules Verne

"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit."

Frank Borman

"The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer."

Ursula K. Le Guin

"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."

Freya Stark

"Victory awaits him who has everything in order – luck, people call it."

Roald Amundsen

"The history of the human race is a continual struggle from the darkness toward the light."

Fridtjof Nansen

"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."

Ernest Shackleton

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."

Neil Armstrong

"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

"With so much conflict in the world, space exploration can be a beacon of hope."

Anne McClain

"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program."

Larry Niven

"We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space."

Buzz Aldrin

"You don't go into space just for the science. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour."

Helen Sharman

"Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

"We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon."

Ray Bradbury

"It takes a planet to explore the universe."

Dylan Taylor

"If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself."

Gwynne Shotwell