What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even...
Striking an average of observations taken at different times - rejecting those timid estimates that gave the object a length of 200 feet, and ignoring those exaggerated views that saw it as a mile...
"Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the center of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the...
I cannot tell where you should look for me because I live at the devotion of the winds and seas.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. - EDWIN P. HUBBLE {1889–1953}, The Nature of Science
Exploration is a dirty game.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...