Friedrich Engels Quotes

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly, as I was able to, travelling around the world.

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

I wanted to be an anthropologist and travel.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

I am a human guinea pig and a professional dilettante.

Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

Whether you are planning a safari, doing a homework assignment on Botswana, or promoting your local business, Street View will allow you to experience a slice of the country.

People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.

I hope that we continue with exploration.

People dig exploration.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.