Quotes by Explorers

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength.[From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

James Cameron

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask

James Cameron

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

Joseph Dalton Hooker

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others—but none in themselves nobler than others.

Alexander von Humboldt

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.

Laurens van der Post

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

H. Rider Haggard