Heidi Hammel Quotes

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

I love that sense of discovery. You're experiencing something for the first time, and your parents aren't in on it, previous generations aren't in on it. It has a chance to belong to you and your generation in a way that nothing has. If 'Pacific Rim' is a fraction of that, I would be very proud.

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.

Space is big. The whole point of the frontier is that we go there to do new things in new places - not one place, and not one thing, but all of the above.

I've always wanted to know what it's like to be the first to do something.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

To boldly go where no one has gone before

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path

Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.