#exploration

Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again. ↗

— James Bryce

#nation-building #nature #opportunities #time #nature

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! ↗

— Larry Niven

#extinction #insightful #space-exploration #insight

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#beginning #ending #exploration #i #i think

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

#better #better way #critically #defend #enhance

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#go #learn #nothing #start #writing

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

#elements #exploration #first #like #literature

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#exploration #investigation #live #movements #sources

Do I think it was inherent nobility that brought us out here?” He shook his head. “Maybe. I don’t call it nobility, though. I think it’s our innate human need to champion the underdog. We are constant optimists. We’re the emotional descendents of the caveman who stood defiant in the front of the wooly mammoth. We rebuild cities at the base of Vesuvius, get back on the bicycle when we fall off, whack that hornet’s nest every spring. Humans cheer for the couldn’t be, believe in the shouldn’t be. We love causes; the harder, the more lost they are, the more we love them. Is that nobility?Maybe. Maybe it’s a pernicious genetic defect that makes our species susceptible to shared delusion. Whatever it is, it keeps life interesting. ↗

— Cassandra Davis

#space-exploration #survival #inspirational

We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action. ↗

— J.D. Bernal

#religion #space-exploration #religion

When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a thirty-five pound bag of rocks and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#polar-exploration #religion