“I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.”
— Stephen Bayley
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“Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.”
— Wilson Greatbatch
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“I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.”
— Maria Mitchell
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“The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.”
— Matt Lucas
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“I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.”
— Patrick Troughton
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“Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.”
— Ramakrishna
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“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.”
— Marshall McLuhan
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“Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.”
— Jan Morris
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“I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.”
— Mary Ellen Mark
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“I travel all the time, and I have two small children.”
— Hope Davis
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