H. G. Wells Quotes

We're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I think the curiosity of mankind, that we want something unknown. Like, 500 years ago, humankind wanted to know what the other side of the ocean is, and it was a very risky project, and then we decided that probably we can fly; let's fly higher. And now we're flying space station, and still it's not enough for us: we want to know what's beyond.

As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Let's face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.

I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources.

Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.

I might not do it again and again, but I would like to test waters which are considered forbidden for me. It is a human tendency.

I think, just philosophically, we're made to explore.

I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.

Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different than a scientist, who is simply wanting to learn.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it.

There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.