Exploration Quotes - Page 8

• I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation.

  Donald A. Wollheim

  Intelligent, Thinking, Space

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• I found my voice when I started doing YouTube videos, and that's when I was pretty old, to be honest. I think it's about exploration. I think it's about trying new things, meeting new people, and also, it's about borrowing inspiration from other people. Because I still have those moments where I'm like, "Oh my God, I'm a loser, what am I doing?"

  Lilly Singh

  Inspiration, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, Stories, Conflict

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• Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful, I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter... the bond is there in my mind and memory; Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately in the nothingness of space.

  Alfred Worden

  Beautiful, Memories, Fall

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• The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

  H. G. Wells

  Choices, Space Exploration, Universe

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• As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss and love so much.

  David M. Brown

  People, Missing, And Love

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• We only went to the moon for military reasons. The space enthusiasts of the day kept saying, "Oh, we're on the moon; we should be on Mars in ten years." That's if it was driven by exploration, but it's never been driven by exploration.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Military, Moon, Years

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean, Moving, Moon

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• The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Views, Shadow

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.

  Charles Duke

  Blue, Breathing, Guy

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• Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

  Charles Duke

  World, Roger, Rooms

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• Machines taking over jobs - it's the history of civilization. Replacing farm animals, old forms of manual labor, now taking over small, menial aspects of cognition. But there's still plenty of room for creativity, for curiosity - many things that are related to passion, like art. But also, things about human communication and challenges, massive challenges that we left behind because we didn't want to take so much risk, such as space exploration, deep ocean exploration.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Ocean, Communication

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.

  F. R. Scott

  Moon, Night, Lakes

  1945 'Trans Canada'.

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• This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.

  Alan Stern

  Real, Moon, New Horizons

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• It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

  Alan Stern

  Moon, Jupiter, Nine

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• Each budgets reflect our priorities, reflect our principles, reflect our vision. We believe in balancing the budget. We believe in getting government to live within its means. We believe in pro-growth economic policies, energy exploration, fixing our entitlements before they go bankrupt.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Mean, Priorities

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• I think sometime we will go to Mars and I think we'll explore it with humans sometime, but I think it's really wise to do all the robotic exploration ahead of time and learn as much as possible. Once we have learned as much as possible with the robots, then that's the time to send people, and let them then continue the research that the robots have started.

  John Glenn

  Wise, Thinking, People

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Land, Wish, Mountain

  Song: 3rd Stone From The Sun

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• Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.

  Robert Hunter

  Spring, Night, Wings

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• Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster of a sailing ship! He must stand at the very stern, with an unobstructed view of the sails. When sailing "by the wind" his eye is glued to the weather-side of the uppermost sail; he keeps it drawing a trace of wind, but never lets it fill.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Eye, Bridges

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• I grew up in California. I was outside of the city, not directly in it. So I did have an experience of the sky, but for me, it was the idea of space exploration that fueled my interest. I grew up in that age of the astronauts, and I was fascinated that we could leave the Earth.

  Larry Wilmore

  Sky, Cities, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed during the time they were working in common. Everything in the way of naval routine was sacrificed for the time to the objects of the cruise, and the appearance of the deck and bow of the Blake was often more that of a mud-scow than of a vessel in the service of the United States.

  Alexander Agassiz

  Ocean, Way, Mud

  Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”

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• Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques.

  J. G. Ballard

  Sex, War, Technique

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• In my experience, professionals who are best in any field approach their work with humility. They know that their work is more than just a job. It's an exploration of life. Even on days when they feel most confident, things can go wrong. Sometimes even the good things that happen are a mystery - a surprise. There are always elements outside our control. That's humbling - or should be.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Jobs, Humility, Elements

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Years, Mystical Experiences, Today

  Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.41, New World Library

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