#exploration

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration. ↗

— Bill Nye

#everyone #exploration #red #space #space exploration

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else. ↗

— Bill Nye

#exploration #extraordinary #go #going #people

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration. ↗

— Laura Nyro

#become #exploration #simplicity #stands #tradition

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#exploration #film-making #form #happens #human

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss. ↗

— Ransom Riggs

#home #new-beginnings #dreams

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back. ↗

— Max Ernst

#exploration #subconscious #art

Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But nobody's ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody's ever named a high school after a robot. So when I don my public-educator hat, I have to recognize the elements of exploration that excite people. It's not only the discoveries and the beautiful photos that come down from the heavens; it's the vicarious participation in discovery itself. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#exploration #robots #beauty

Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it. ↗

— Andrew Smith

#space-exploration #intelligence

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#exploration #night-sky #nocturnal #skywatcher #space

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

#changed #expansion #exploration #got #history