Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.
They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
