#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

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

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy! ↗

— Craig Bruce

#buy #exploration #geez #how #just

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#charting #existence #exploration #mapping #possibilities

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. ↗

— Frank Borman

#exploration #human #human spirit #really #spirit

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#conservations #endangered-species #exploration #history #the-west

One of them confessed to Paul that his tribe had heard stories about the fiercely cannibalistic ways of white men. Paul's first instinct was to laugh him off as a simpleminded fool. But the legend hadn't been conjured from thin air. When Paul tried to assure him that white men didn't eat black men, the man confronted him with a direct challenge: explain why they bought and sold Africans as if they were cattle, not human beings. "Why do you come from nobody knows where, and carry off our men, and women, and children?" the man asked Paul. "Do you not fatten them in your far country and eat them? ↗

— Monte Reel

#exploration #history #slavery #men

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies. ↗

— Grant Morrison

#comics #exploration #humanity #war #money

The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly! ↗

— Bob Bello

#flight #sci-fi #space-colonization #space-exploration #speculative-fiction