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“The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.”

Men Century Philosophical Landscape Exploration Immense

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries.”

Has Beens Art Reality Wanted Artist Next Steps Generations Century Art Is Discovery Boundaries Data Visuals Exploration Next Generation Advancement Contributing

Book:Breaking the rules: Audrey Flack, a retrospective 1950-1990

Source: Breaking the rules: Audrey Flack, a retrospective 1950-1990

“The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.”

Ifs Real Stories Would Be Fiction Novel Land Century Moon Band Science Fiction Lays Exploration Fabulous Rockets Rubber Rubber Bands

Author:Philip K. Dick

“Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.”

Ifs Humans Turns Space Vision Century Position Flight Exploration Space Exploration Space Flight

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say “discover,” they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.”

Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.”

Next Effort Century Resources Available Objectives Exploration Mars Symbolic Asteroids

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century”