I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.
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...
Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken, as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone...
For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my...
So, what's the status?" said Ira as he pulled himself down to his couch. "Will is turning into a starship," Hugo replied, clearly only half in jest. "We're about to watch history in the making."
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
Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation.
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...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...