Stephen Hawking Quotes

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.

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

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

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.

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

Explorers tend to be the aggressive types - why else would they risk scurvy, mutiny and other bad things to go out there? So, you could say that any aliens that are actually moving and interested in going somewhere are likely to be more aggressive. But who knows?

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

I want to be the guy out there on the edge.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

I am not afraid to be a pioneer. When a door is ajar, you need to open it fully. And once you are in that room, you need to see what other doors there might be and where they might lead.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

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.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

Somebody has to try it.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.