Exploration Quotes

‘We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.’ – Frank Borman

‘I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.’ – Elon Musk

‘Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘The excitement lies in the exploration of the world around us.’ – Jim Peebles

‘The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.’ – Ansel Adams

‘As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.’ – Laura Nyro

‘With so much conflict in the world, space exploration can be a beacon of hope.’ – Anne McClain

‘Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let’s all go exploring.’ – Edith Widder

‘All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to risk my life for the mission.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you’ll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.’ – Mel Robbins

‘Because of technologies from space exploration, we can begin to understand our world’s origins, and our lives are improving. These are the reasons why dedicating a life to the sciences and space exploration is so meaningful and rewarding.’ – Emily Calandrelli

‘Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It’s a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.’ – Graham Hawkes

‘NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.’ – Bill Nye

‘That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.’ – Leonard Nimoy

‘Many people may not recognize that the development of space exploration technologies has already helped benefit Earth in many ways, especially when it comes to communications, Earth observation and even fostering economic growth. Space technologies are surprisingly critical in impacting government, industry and personal daily decision-making.’ – Dylan Taylor

‘Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.’ – E. L. Doctorow

‘It’s not good enough for us to have generations of kids that… look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.’ – Burt Rutan

‘Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!’ – Craig Bruce

‘By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.’ – Valentina Tereshkova

‘We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘Exploration by real people inspires us.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.’ – Hussein Chalayan

‘I’m a storyteller; that’s what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven’t been and returning to tell a story they haven’t heard before.’ – James Cameron

‘I’ve always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts.’ – Steve Jurvetson

‘So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.’ – Robert Ballard

‘I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.’ – Mae Jemison

‘Let’s face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘I don’t see myself as a hero because what I’m doing is self-interested: I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.’ – Edward Snowden

‘Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That’s a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America’s space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.’ – Randy Forbes

‘Hard systems are everything we’re using right now – computers, phones, planes, the clothes you’re wearing, the room you’re in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make – including space exploration vehicles and so on – is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.’ – Allan Savory

‘We need to explore our own deserts and land, which need to be healed and managed on the planet itself. It is not the time to use and throw this planet and we need to explore deep within more than without. Space exploration should be used to quench human thirst.’ – Sonam Wangchuk

‘Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don’t ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I love grocery shopping when I’m home. That’s what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.’ – Yo-Yo Ma

‘Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.’ – Bob Barr

‘A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we’re excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.’ – Adrianne Lenker

‘We’d never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn’t been for space exploration and NASA.’ – James Lovelock

‘I hope that we continue with exploration.’ – Margaret H. Hamilton

‘Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.’ – Edith Widder

‘You don’t go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it’s the human endeavour.’ – Helen Sharman

‘Is manned space exploration important? Yes – not least because it simply works much better than sending robots.’ – Henry Spencer

‘People go on exploration; they’re trying to find places that weren’t known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.’ – Mark Walport

‘The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.’ – Rachel McAdams

‘It must be born in mind that one does not see directly – as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain – where the electrodes are attacking.’ – Walter Rudolf Hess

‘My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘My grandfather was a very successful businessman. He started off as an engineer, but moved to sales to management to executive over a long career. For a while, before I was born, he was the CEO of an oil and gas exploration company.’ – Hank Green

‘I’m really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what’s around the next corner and what’s just beyond what we already know. It’s part of our being; it’s part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.’ – Alan G. Poindexter

‘My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.’ – Ryszard Kapuscinski

‘I believe that the future of humans, and the future of Earth, depends on space exploration. That’s not a French problem, or a problem for Alabama: it’s a planet-wide problem. International cooperation is crucial.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘I was only in second grade when the Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. The night of his launch – April 12, 1961 – I went out onto the front porch and stared up at the stars, trying to see his capsule passing overhead. Like millions of others, I was enthralled by the idea of space exploration and have been ever since.’ – Paul Allen

‘There’s no exploration anymore, except in a very few places.’ – Sydney Brenner

‘America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.’ – Elon Musk

‘One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.’ – Ellen Stofan

‘The biggest thing you can do in VR that you can’t really do in non-VR games is a huge focus on exploration and interaction.’ – Justin Roiland

‘Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don’t know what’s there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.’ – Charles H. Townes

‘After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.’ – Gene Cernan

‘So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.’ – Duane G. Carey

‘The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we’re going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.’ – Bill Nye

‘At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.’ – Randy Neugebauer

‘For me, ‘Lamb’ started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in ‘Coyote Blue’ and ‘Island of the Sequined Love Nun,’ but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.’ – Christopher Moore

‘Resilience is one of the most important aspects in this business and exploration period.’ – Victor J. Glover

‘What’s so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It’s the safe place that we, as a culture, can deal with things that upset and frighten us – the darker side of our nature.’ – Mike Flanagan

‘There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it’s very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.’ – Peggy Whitson

‘Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn’t something I was too aware of.’ – Yvonne Strahovski

‘It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress – whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy – that so many people are denied the most basic human rights.’ – Paul Polman

‘The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.’ – Jose Ortega y Gasset

‘My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that’s what I look for in the material I read: if it’s asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it’s a context that I find interesting.’ – Rose McIver

‘Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library – alone – unwatched?’ – Richard Jefferies

‘I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘I’m attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.’ – Leonard Nimoy

‘I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we’re shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.’ – Naveen Jain

‘There’s this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I’m a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they’re an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea.’ – Megan Smith

‘Space is a laboratory, an experiment in all forms of all things, an infinity of possibilities, properties, and places that cry out for investigation and exploration.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘I was around nine when a babysitter snuck ‘Who’s Next’ onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.’ – Eddie Vedder

‘In any ‘big science’ enterprise, like planetary exploration, where you must work in big teams of similarly driven people, it is important also to know how to work alongside others even when they may be your fiercest competitors.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘In my opinion, future space exploration will require us to inhabit the moon, initially, and later Mars. This is a humongous task for any one nation to carry out.’ – Rakesh Sharma

‘Our journey in going beyond our home planet is a human endeavor, and in the greatest tradition of exploration, past, present, and future spacefarers will continue to be enduring catalysts for inspiration in our quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you’ve got to send humans.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘One simply runs out of energy as you get old. One doesn’t take on new tasks of exploration because it takes an extended period of intense thinking and working on it, and that becomes impractical.’ – Eugene Parker

‘The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘Obviously I’d like NASA to follow their charter – the exploration of our solar system and beyond. I’d like to see people someday go to Mars.’ – Fred Haise

‘Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, Thunder, and Lightning deserve their own show because they are not ‘the other.’ They are legitimate superheroes in their own right, and so they deserve the full breadth of exploration. That’s what makes them worthy, and that’s why they deserve it. They are not ‘the other.’ They are ‘the the.” – Salim Akil

‘All my work is always that exploration of human nature.’ – Kelly Masterson

‘To move forward, what’s required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we’ll get there, and yet there’s always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn’t been explored.’ – William Shatner

‘And as I reinvent myself and I’m constantly curious about everything, I can’t wait to see what’s around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.’ – Pam Grier

‘To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.’ – Joan Didion

‘I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.’ – Annabella Sciorra

‘People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.’ – Robert Zubrin

‘I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.’ – John Coltrane

‘We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.’ – Burt Rutan

‘I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn’t happen. That is my only – fear – in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn’t get abused.’ – Scott Bakula

‘Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America’s important strategies in space.’ – Rob Bishop

‘Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility – we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.’ – Valentina Tereshkova

‘And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.’ – Duane G. Carey

‘I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn’t reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn’t reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.’ – Duane G. Carey

‘In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn’t mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.’ – John L. Phillips

‘If I wasn’t doing this kind of exploration, I’d like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.’ – John L. Phillips

‘They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.’ – William John Wills

‘My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don’t talk about heat as an ingredient, I don’t quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.’ – Alton Brown

‘Acting is constant exploration.’ – Paul Guilfoyle

‘I’ve often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state’s rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.’ – Jeff Miller

‘KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I’m not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.’ – Mike Wilson

‘I believe we can do more in making the President’s vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.’ – Dana Rohrabacher

‘We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.’ – Alfred de Vigny

‘For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.’ – John Grierson

‘I don’t think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.’ – Wally Schirra

‘All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.’ – Sarah Zettel

‘If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.’ – Chaim Potok

‘We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.’ – Jim Costa

‘There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.’ – Kenny Marchant

‘For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom.’ – Ernest Lawrence

‘I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.’ – Leroy Chiao

‘I think there’s room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.’ – Sting

‘Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook’s time than now. It’s amazing.’ – Robert Ballard

‘For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I’m always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what’s right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?’ – Ann Bancroft

‘You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.’ – Bill Nye

‘Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.’ – Gene Cernan

‘I’m interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.’ – Guy Pearce

‘Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.’ – Chris Hemsworth

‘What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.’ – Robert Ballard

‘I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it’s about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that’s frightening because I haven’t been there before.’ – P. J. Harvey

‘You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It’s more of an exploration and discovery.’ – Alexander Payne

‘In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn’t have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!’ – Peter Diamandis

‘Now ‘90210’ is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I’ll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang’s bleak adult lives.’ – Diablo Cody

‘I’m saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.’ – Vera Farmiga

‘When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages. It’s really a fascinating character study in the exploration of the human psyche.’ – Laurie Holden

‘I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I’m falling asleep, like I’ll go crazy if I don’t do it.’ – Karen O

‘Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA’s budget is too small for the job.’ – Paul Davies

‘I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research, logistics and the business related to the production of shale gas.’ – Donald Tusk

‘Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.’ – Larry Cohen

‘Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it’s not science, it’s an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.’ – Tim O’Brien

‘When I started, I was told that, for all intents and purposes, I was playing a human, which made it easier. Until they told me, ‘Grace, you’re a Cylon, she wouldn’t do that.’ And later, I learned that Cylons are actually more human than humans. This has been an ongoing exploration.’ – Grace Park

‘The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much grace and balance as possible, even if there is rebellion and adventure and exploration and resistance.’ – James Cromwell

‘In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.’ – Burt Rutan

‘The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, ‘Let’s explore because it’s fun.’ It was, ‘Let’s explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let’s explore so we can become more powerful.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there’s an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there’s an atmosphere that’s relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.’ – Viggo Mortensen

‘Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.’ – Alafair Burke

‘Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.’ – Ben Parr

‘We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program – Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers – look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.’ – Nathan Myhrvold

‘What I’ve found – and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it – is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It’s scary to be truthful, and it’s scary to reveal yourself, and I’m very attracted to doing things that scare me.’ – Jane Wiedlin

‘I’m not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It’s all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.’ – Alex Lifeson

‘From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we’re gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We’re willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.’ – Carl Safina

‘As a young boy, I was very interested – as I still am – in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, or marine biologist, but I clearly was drawn to the ocean and to the water.’ – Brian Skerry

‘We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.’ – Fred Wilson

‘The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.’ – Neil Peart

‘The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I’m equally an artist and an engineer.’ – Arthur Ganson

‘My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean… For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.’ – Bertrand Piccard

‘Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.’ – Edward Burtynsky

‘I’ve always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the ’60s.’ – Sarah Brightman

‘Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘There are plenty of people on Earth. It’s not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don’t come back. Exploration is dangerous.’ – William Stone

‘The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.’ – Cesar Pelli

‘I’ve always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.’ – Gerry Anderson

‘The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.’ – Graham Hawkes

‘NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.’ – Hanna Rosin

‘The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we’re exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It’s not physical – it’s all in the head.’ – Lewis Gordon Pugh

‘Dover’s cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.’ – Julian Baggini

‘I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.’ – Natalie Jeremijenko

‘To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as ‘what NASA does’. This perception is – in many respects – a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.’ – Martin Rees

‘I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.’ – Elon Musk

‘In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don’t commit national crime. Don’t prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country.’ – Veerappa Moily

‘I’ve completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I’ve been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!’ – Brian Blessed

‘I want to know why I’m alive. I want to understand. It’s like exploration; it’s like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching – it’s a passion.’ – Juliette Binoche

‘A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies – they’re movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie ‘Marooned’ over and over when I was a kid.’ – Alfonso Cuaron

‘We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.’ – Brian Greene

‘What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they’re going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: ‘How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?’ The exploration is: ‘Who am I, what am I doing?” – Alison Gopnik

‘The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called ‘Mystery Man,’ and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn’t.’ – Kat Edmonson

‘Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That’s a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s what scientists do every day.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an exploration of consciousness. Not that I don’t get into the consciousness of the people in ‘The Surrendered,’ but you could say there’s not as much anxiety about it.’ – Chang-Rae Lee

‘Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.’ – Neil MacGregor

‘Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It’s hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources.’ – Seth Shostak

‘NASA’s Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that’s what it’s all about.’ – Patrick O’Brian

‘It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration – you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.’ – Dimitar Sasselov

‘Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.’ – Brian Behlendorf

‘When I began work on my first book, ‘The River of Doubt,’ which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.’ – Candice Millard

‘I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you’re providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you’re obligated to not say things out loud.’ – Shane Carruth

‘I’m interested in making something that moves quickly, that hopefully is compelling minute-by-minute but really packed densely with exploration. I’m very interested in how re-visitable we can make films. If we can get them closer to a music album, then it’s not such an arduous process to revisit, and exploration can be a bit more cryptic.’ – Shane Carruth

‘At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their clothes were mysterious and alluring – added to which, they could not speak a word of English. More than anything, I wanted to connect with them and embark on a vast journey of exploration.’ – Michael Leunig

‘So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really an exploration of a more interesting and embarrassing question about ourselves.’ – Michael Leunig

‘The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller.’ – Robert Englund

‘There’s no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that’s healthy, and it’s therapeutic in a way. But if you’re indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that’s not good.’ – Annette Bening

‘Women are just more oriented toward feelings – and I don’t mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor and a male director, the emotional exploration can only go so far. With a female director, you can end up exploring so many more depths.’ – Nick Nolte

‘We didn’t have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn’t to suggest I’m an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.’ – Stephen Rea

‘Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it’s turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.’ – Cate Blanchett

”Wayne of Gotham’ is very much a father-and-son exploration. We’ve always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in marble; this perfect man. The only thing we really know about is that he died in that alley outside of a theater. But every son has to confront the reality of his father at some point in his life.’ – Tracy Hickman

‘I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can’t fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together – to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.’ – Susan Howatch

‘The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.’ – Gillian Cross

‘Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘Human exploration is something that’s been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there’s always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

‘When someone tells me, ‘Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much money,’ I say, ‘I absolutely agree with you. But I still hope we do it.” – Mary Roach

‘Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable of our conquest of the planets in our solar system would be tremendously speeded up, from hot Mercury all the way out to frigid Pluto.’ – Donald A. Wollheim

‘We’re all born storytellers. It’s part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.’ – Nic Pizzolatto

‘To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered – revelations, surprises.’ – Octavio Paz

‘Asmat has natural and cultural treasures that await exploration.’ – Ciputra

‘I think the exploration and the search for who Jesus is, and that 2,000 years later we’re still trying to figure out who He was, and did He really rise from the dead… And I think for me, the answer is ‘yes,’ and that’s why we’re talking about Him today.’ – Erwin McManus

‘Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.’ – Charles Stross

‘As much as with increased exploration new gas reserves can be found, what must be obvious to all is that our oil and gas reserves are not renewable and they are diminishing, and to protect the generations to come, we must engage in nothing short of a radical shift in the diversification of the economy.’ – Anthony Carmona

‘I’ve got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there’s a slide on it that asks, ‘What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,’ and I refuse to answer that question.’ – Warren Spector

‘There’s this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn’t the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.’ – Astro Teller

‘You can’t be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you’re wearing blinders. 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

”V-Wars’ is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.’ – Jonathan Maberry

‘I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.’ – Edmund Phelps

‘I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.’ – Bob Mayer

‘I think each book sort of finds its own theme as it goes on. ‘Warded Man’ was fear. ‘Desert Spear’ was exploration of the other. ‘Daylight War’ was relationships. Some of this is intentional, and some of it evolves naturally. The series as a whole is obviously something I have given a lot of thought to, but each book is its own animal as well.’ – Peter V. Brett

‘With the mission to Mars, the whole world wants to get involved. So we actually have 13 different space agencies from around the world working on the global exploration road map.’ – Ellen Stofan

‘One of the core reasons for creating ‘Station to Station’ was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.’ – Doug Aitken

‘Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical – thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.’ – Gregory Benford

‘My grandfather pioneered exploration of what he called ‘our water planet,’ then my father sought to understand the human connection, and now, as part of the third generation, I’m dedicated to not only raising awareness but also to empowering people to take action.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘I think it’s important to have scaling challenge because there are players who I feel play ‘Dragon Age’ for the wonder, story and exploration but wouldn’t enjoy getting their butts handed to them. We do still have easy mode – it’s not a pure story mode in that there’s zero combat, but it’s not super-challenging.’ – Marc Laidlaw

‘There’s a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.’ – Alex Honnold

‘When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R’s: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.’ – Lee Gutkind

‘I believe in exploration, and I will miss being on the front lines of that endeavor. On one hand, I look forward to going home, but it’s something that’s been a big part of my life, and I’m going to miss it.’ – Scott Kelly

‘Specifically choose not to take a GPS. Just create a challenge. You can climb Everest or walk across Antarctica with minimal gear and still have that sense of adventure. But in terms of exploration, Google Earth has this world mapped down to the square foot.’ – Conrad Anker

‘Perhaps you could say that mountaineers are driven by ego or our competitiveness, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Whether it’s a huge face in the Himalaya or some crag in the woods behind your house, exploration offers us a unique perspective on the world that you can’t really find anywhere else.’ – Conrad Anker

‘I think, even when I was little, there was signs that I was an artist. I’ve always been an artist. My first exploration through art was really through music – I’ve trained classically with piano for about ten years.’ – Condola Rashad

‘I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It’s very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.’ – Brie Larson

‘Congress has no business telling courts within a state that they are prohibited from considering issues involving a lease for energy development, production, and exploration that has the potential to cause irreparable environmental and economic damage to the Gulf Coast area of that state.’ – Ted Deutch

‘The exploration for oil and gas off our shores can play a role in making energy more affordable and accessible… However, effective safety measures must be in place, and exploration must be done in an environmentally sensitive manner that in no way interferes with our military.’ – Ander Crenshaw

‘Why climb? That’s a question that baffles me. It perplexes me. I really asked that a lot on Everest. I can’t justify it. I can’t say it’s for a good cause. All I can say is look at the history of exploration: it’s full of vainglorious pursuits.’ – Jon Krakauer

‘I think even in bad times it’s good to keep some money going into research. And that’s the purpose of the whole space program. It’s not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.’ – John Glenn

‘Often it’s the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it.’ – Julian Assange

‘I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the ‘age of limits.” – Robert Zubrin

‘The prolific Chinodya has written a number of striking books, most notably ‘Dew in the Morning’, an exploration of an idyllic rural boyhood; the sophisticated ‘Strife,’ in which sins from the pre-colonial past cast shadows into the present; and the rich and varied short-story collection ‘Can We Talk?” – Petina Gappah

‘We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.’ – Edith Widder

‘If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.’ – Edith Widder

‘Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.’ – Edith Widder

‘When you’re an athlete, you’ve got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of other things in life tends to be limited because you have to have such a focus on what you’re doing. I wasn’t a good enough player to stray from that focus and still keep my ability.’ – Wyatt Russell

‘I’ve always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we’ve found everything now.’ – Ransom Riggs

‘Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.’ – Rae Carson

‘Anything that stimulates the public’s imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I’m very excited to be a part of.’ – Ron Howard

‘Being a dad is like – there’s nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you’re always in the terrain of love, whether it’s absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.’ – Gavin O’Connor

‘I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown – ‘a journey without maps,’ to borrow Graham Greene’s phrase.’ – Michael Korda

‘I was raised in the ’70s, and I’ve worked with people I love, and I’ve been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.’ – Laura Dern

‘I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels – I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.’ – K. Flay

‘I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I’m a software guy. But because I’m a non-expert, I’ve been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.’ – Naveen Jain

‘If there’s going to be the development of a commercial space economy, whatever it is, shouldn’t you do your exploration to prepare a path for what’s going to come next?’ – Bruce Pittman

‘NSS is delighted to support the New Horizons mission by helping to share this exciting milestone in space exploration with the general public in America and around the world.’ – Bruce Pittman

‘Just speaking for myself, I think the return of people to the Moon has a lot to offer for understanding the formation and evolution of terrestrial worlds; so would the exploration of near-Earth asteroids by people.’ – Alan Stern

‘I’m hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that’s only going to happen in the commercial sector – if there are large profits to be made.’ – Alan Stern

‘New Horizons isn’t just visiting Pluto; it’s visiting this entire region. Whatever it finds, this will be a signal moment for planetary exploration – the capstone to our first reconnaissance of the planets of our solar system.’ – Alan Stern

‘We’re in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven’t explored it very well.’ – Alan Stern

‘People dig exploration.’ – Alan Stern

‘In the mind of the public, the word ‘planet’ carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies… many members of the public assume that alleged ‘non-planets’ cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.’ – Alan Stern

‘CSF and its members believe strongly in the exploration of space of all kinds, including commercial purposes.’ – Alan Stern

‘People ask, ‘What are the scientific questions you’re going to answer?’ New Horizons doesn’t have any of those; it’s purely about raw exploration… We’re not ‘rewriting the textbook’ – we’re writing the textbook from scratch.’ – Alan Stern

‘We made more than just scientific discoveries… we rediscovered how much people love exploration.’ – Alan Stern

”Bowling For Columbine’ and ‘Gus Van Sant’s Elephant’ really intrigued me. With ‘Bowling For Columbine’, I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.’ – Josh Trank

‘The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.’ – Mae Jemison

”The Odyssey’ is a great poem to refugee-dom… Odysseus is not entirely a refugee… he’s somebody who’s blown off course. The entire book is an exploration of that theme… I reread it every year… That’s not as surprising as it sounds, because it’s a rip-roaring book.’ – Lawrence Osborne

”God Loves Uganda’ is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America’s Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting ‘sexual immorality’ and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow Biblical law.’ – Roger Ross Williams

‘I am very inspired by the exploration of space via private means.’ – Emily Calandrelli

‘I’m always going with my visceral reaction when I read a script. I am more drawn to characters who are conflicted, and in developing a character exploration. If it’s a baddie, I’m rarely intrigued, and if it’s a goody two-shoes – too much of a good guy – I’m not, either.’ – Alexander Skarsgard

‘Learning networking basics is only a gateway to career growth and exploration.’ – Tae Yoo

‘Sometimes you realize that the thing an actor is asking for isn’t exactly the thing they want. Maybe they’re asking for more dialogue, or maybe they want a deep intellectual exploration of their role. But probably what they really need is encouragement.’ – Karyn Kusama

‘I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.’ – Trevor Paglen

‘It’s really the rare creator who can tell you where he’s going to end the season of 22 episodes. That’s not bad. That’s part of the creative exploration.’ – Kevin Reilly

‘I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration.’ – Peggy Whitson

‘My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.’ – Peggy Whitson

‘You see billions and billions of stars and recognize that you know some of those have planets, too, and maybe there’s life out there, and this is just one of billions of galaxies… and so it gives you this huge perspective of how far we potentially have to go for real exploration.’ – Peggy Whitson

‘Even if my job for the day is cleaning the vents or fixing the toilet, it still feels good to be a part of the space program and advancing exploration.’ – Peggy Whitson

‘You cannot study other planets without referring to Earth and without applying the techniques and the insights of Earth science. And you cannot really do a good job understanding the Earth without the insights from planetary exploration.’ – David Grinspoon

‘I think a lot of people interested in space exploration tend to hear stories about the great missions, how they work technically, what we learned. But they don’t really hear the story of what it takes to get a mission from scratch to the launch pad and into space.’ – David Grinspoon

‘Ever since the environmental movement was sparked by photos of the whole Earth taken by astronauts onboard Apollo Lunar Modules, I’ve seen planetary exploration as an extension of a reverence and care for Earth.’ – David Grinspoon

‘I don’t see it as coincidence that the great acceleration of the Anthropocene influences on Earth came during the same decades as our first exploration of the other planets.’ – David Grinspoon

‘I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I learned that space exploration was real. I wanted to get involved in that. I knew I wanted to be a scientist.’ – David Grinspoon

”Gone Home’ is a game about exploration, and everything you’ll experience is tied intimately to the space of the spooky house around you. Your task is simple: Poke around.’ – Robin Sloan

‘Summer is meant to be for travel, for exploration, for leisure, but sometimes budgets and schedules dictate otherwise.’ – Rumaan Alam

‘For long-duration exploration missions, NASA is looking for folks with a lot of operational, hands-on experience, people who have been in field-type situations such as military deployments. In my case, I worked in the Congo and in Biosafety Level 4 labs on smallpox.’ – Kathleen Rubins

‘That’s one of the beauties of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim and their work together. They have such a depth to the emotional exploration of the story that they’re telling, but there’s always a release, and the release is a laugh.’ – Annaleigh Ashford

”The Marriage of Souls’, like ‘The Rationalist’, is an exploration of humanist philosophy wrapped between the delicate leaves of an eighteenth-century tale. The story of the two novels – and they should be read as a two-volume work – centres around the old war-horse of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl. But what a boy and what a girl.’ – Amanda Foreman

‘We often mistake the artificial chemical and psychological thrill of fake edges for the real. In fact we often seek them out as a substitute for the reality of change, growth and exploration. Our minds and bodies help us in this, as they react much the same to this simulations as to the real world.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘The exploration of space: Be it by humans or robots, based on the best choice for the mission and the most efficient means to return the data and science sought. Most of the time, this will mean we send robots due to cost and danger. But sometimes, we will need the irreplaceable judgment and descriptive abilities of a person on the spot.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘By reigniting the exploration role of our government Lewises and Clarks within and enabled by the infrastructure and economic drive of commercial space and the people themselves, this nation can rise to heights unimaginable.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon. Outside the gravitational field of Earth, we could launch robotic spacecraft to other destinations in our solar system.’ – Debra Fischer

‘We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And we need to be clear that there’s the human spaceflight part of NASA, and there’s the science space part of NASA, and there’s also aeronautics. Those are all very different things that NASA does.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘It’s clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘Because exploration is not science driven, you’ve got to ask what is it driven by? And it’s driven by politics.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘I know that I derive the same kind of spiritual fulfillment from what I do, being a planetary scientist, seeing our exploration of the solar system come to fruition. I get such a spiritual high from it that I don’t even see the need for religion.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft made flybys of the planet. These celebrated events were the opening acts in the story of humanity’s exploration of Saturn.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘I am uneasy about having scientific exploration depend on profit-making companies.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘Small bodies in our solar system, like comets and asteroids, help us understand how the solar system formed and provide opportunities to advance exploration.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I’ve always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘I started reading and fell in love with the worlds and characters Lev Grossman created. I’m taken with his exploration of an idealized childhood fantasy through the lens of adulthood, or coming into adulthood.’ – Hale Appleman

‘In my experience as an actor over so many years, I don’t know when I have been touched so deeply on so many levels as I have been by ‘The Leftovers’ in my three years there. It is a profound exploration of life, of grief, of loss.’ – Ann Dowd

‘With ‘8 Diagrams,’ I just skimmed the surface of musical exploration.’ – Rza

‘Life is about growth and exploration, not achieving a fixed state of balance. You have a very limited time on earth to experience all that you can. Figuring out how to squeeze the most out of your family, work, and spirituality is your life’s purpose. Go do it.’ – Mel Robbins

‘This is going to sound ridiculous, but I read in an interview with Lil Wayne that he recorded a mixtape of something like 50 straight minutes of him rapping all of his material because he felt like he could never move on to the next phase of his musical exploration if he didn’t get it down on tape.’ – Chris Carmack

‘I think it took me until – my twenties were really a time of exploration and experimentation with different groups and different types of music. Then I kind of developed the sound, which first appeared, I guess, on my first solo album ‘Englaborn,’ which came out in 2001.’ – Johann Johannsson

‘I like books like ‘The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,’ where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of the society where the crime took place.’ – Tana French

‘I owe so much of my musical growth to my exploration and performance of Carnatic music.’ – Sid Sriram

‘The performance of Carnatic music is multi-dimensional and layered. A performance is at once an artiste’s cathartic process of personal exploration and an open energy exchange with the audience: a release and a conversation.’ – Sid Sriram

‘I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the social condition, I found gunpowder gradually as a very suitable medium for exploration.’ – Cai Guo-Qiang

‘I would like ‘Dark Souls’ to be a broad exploration game filled with so many veiled things and details.’ – Hidetaka Miyazaki

‘Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.’ – Ruskin Bond

‘It’s so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.’ – Jihae

‘Exploration of closer planets will continue. Only after he exhausts all the resources here on earth will man go further ahead, which is when interplanetary travel may take place.’ – Rakesh Sharma

‘Space exploration has taken a tremendous technological leap. India as a developing nation has been recognized globally for how it has economized its missions, which have been comparatively low-cost compared with other countries.’ – Rakesh Sharma

‘With space exploration picking up, low-cost access to space will be required and I believe that Isro will be the go-to agency that would provide value for this kind of activity.’ – Rakesh Sharma

‘I was never interested in acting on film or in television, but I was always more inclined to writing and directing, and the exploration of character.’ – Sam Levinson

‘We always had National Geographic and Astronomy magazines and Popular Mechanics lying around the house. I got interested in exploration and different parts of the world and different parts of the universe just from seeing those things around the house and the different discussions we had as a family.’ – Christina Koch

‘My mom studied biology and my dad studied chemistry and some physics and he is a physician, but he had a very strong interest in astronomy and astrophysics and exploration in general.’ – Christina Koch

‘Growing up, I felt there was nothing my dad couldn’t do, but didn’t get the chance to do when we moved. I think he latched on to ‘Trek’ because of the sense of exploration and discovery, and hope. I think that’s what he connected to.’ – Justin Lin

‘Star Trek’ is not just about literal exploration, but also the exploration of ourselves.’ – Justin Lin

‘Something about exploration has fascinated me from a young age.’ – Anne McClain

‘Fifty years after humans landed on the moon for the first time, America has driven a golden spike on the trail to new space exploration feats through the work of our commercial partner SpaceX and all of the dedicated and talented flight controllers at NASA and our international partners.’ – Anne McClain

‘We humans were built for exploration, and we were built to do it together.’ – Anne McClain

‘We’re using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in space and hit some of our deep-space exploration goals.’ – Anne McClain

‘I think one of the things about reinforcement learning is that it tends to require exploration. So using it in the context of physical systems is somewhat hard.’ – Jeff Dean

‘Patrick Melrose’ is a frantically accurate exploration of the addict mind tormented by trauma, magnificently brought to life by Benedict Cumberbatch. At its core, it is a story that has a timeless quality with echoes of Cervantes.’ – Drew Pinsky

‘The bigger shift in space exploration won’t be commercial crew – that will be a validation of something we already knew was going to be the case. It will be when you have a fully private company launching everyday citizens. When people know people in their communities who have been to space on a daily basis.’ – Dylan Taylor

‘It’s not like I wake up and think, ‘Now I’m going to go to work.’ It just feels like a continuing exploration.’ – Jacob Collier

‘Cooking for a family, and specifically cooking to stimulate exploration of new flavors and textures, has led to mealtimes that are both healthier and more exciting.’ – J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

‘My entire twenties were filled with decisions that make me think, ‘You had to go there, huh?’ But that’s part of exploration and I think a lot of the most beautiful moments of my life and a lot of the most amazing things have come out of some of the most tumultuous times.’ – Jeremiah Brent

‘I’ve been lucky to have been given opportunities in different genres. And most of the time I’ve felt that the exploration, the composing, the collaboration, was a move forward.’ – James Newton Howard

‘We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.’ – Robert Greene

‘Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ In the Wind’ was written into the script of ‘Article 15.’ It was the only song I wanted in my film. It encapsulates the spirit of exploration and salvation that my hero Ayushmann Khurrana goes through. I love the song’s lyrics, especially ‘How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? ” – Anubhav Sinha

‘My coaches – and even my parents – wanted to give me the space for exploration to see what I could do. Or even to see what I couldn’t do and what I would want to learn how to do. It was always about inspiring me and giving me that freedom that you would want in childhood.’ – Tobin Heath

‘What is Captain America’s relevance? Is there a Captain America that makes any sense anymore? All of those questions I thought were very topically important to not just discuss but to go on a real exploration in a deep dive sort of way.’ – Kari Skogland

‘I wanted to become an astronaut because I believe that the exploration of space by humans is extremely important.’ – Shannon Walker

‘We can always connect with all of our characters on a human level, but a lot of them took a lot of observation and exploration and talking with people. And we absolutely embrace our actors’ perspectives on all that.’ – Anna Boden

‘I wanted to go into exploration. I’ve always been an explorer in my youth.’ – Wally Funk

‘It’s part of my DNA as a Portuguese. Like many of my ancestors, there’s that need to discover the world – exploration is in my blood.’ – Mariana van Zeller

‘Scientists have suggested that some whale deaths could be a result of marine noise, often a result of military activity, offshore drilling or exploration, which can disorient the animals and send them in the wrong direction, possibly toward beaches where they get stuck instead of into the deeper ocean.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘St. Jude’s mission is not about rockets or space exploration, it’s about treating some of the most heart wrenching conditions that any parent could imagine.’ – Jared Isaacman

‘I believe that history will record Inspiration4 as a pivotal moment in space exploration, as another important step towards humanity’s next great rendezvous with destiny out in space.’ – Jared Isaacman

‘I feel a lot like Magellan. You know – the great explorer during the Age of Exploration.’ – Madison Cawthorn

‘The expansion of commercial space exploration holds huge promise and benefits for our country. It will help support government-backed research and programs, provide a platform to conduct cutting edge research, and lend inspiration to the next generation of engineers, scientists, artists and mathematicians.’ – Ben Ray Lujan

‘NASA is so risk-averse. That’s insane for exploration.’ – Robert Bigelow

‘I think Gucci is one of the few brands truly making clothes for everyone. It continually expands its reach and style to push the envelope of what masculinity and femininity means. It’s cinematic and timeless, which ties so closely with what I do as an actor – exploration of identity and clothes go hand in hand.’ – Harris Dickinson

‘Fashion is such an exciting exploration of who you are and expression of ourselves and I think we forget that sometimes.’ – Ava Michelle