#exploration

The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This is a marriage made in heaven - but one that has been surprisingly difficult to consummate. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#russia #space-exploration #marriage

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. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) - T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding Taken from Sara’s journal, 10/6/2012 ↗

— TS Eliot

#inspirational #inspirational

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#drives #exploration #genre #geographical #me

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

#aspects #awakened #began #bird #dizzy

Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose ambush is violent and sudden: the song the cab driver was tuned to, the song rumbling from the speaker wedged against the fire-escape railing, the song tingling from the transistor on the beach blanket. To locate those songs again can become, with age, something like a religious quest, as suggested by the frequent use of the phrase "Holy Grail" to describe hard-to-find tracks. The collector is haunted by the knowledge that somewhere on the planet an intact chunk of his past still exists, uncorrupted by time or circumstance. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#exploration #fascination #holy-grail #music #age

Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, 'When I grow up I will go there.' The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven't been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamour's off. Other places were scattered about the hemispheres. I have been in some of them, and ... well, we won't talk about that. But there was one yet — the biggest, the most blank, so to speak — that I had a hankering after. True, by this time it was not a blank space any more. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery — a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#maps #dreams

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#energy #exploration #no reason #reason #support

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

#book #close #decades #decay #exploration

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

#again #back #brave #century #consider

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

#believe #cash #encourage #exploration #greater