It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
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The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
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.
Honestly, there isn't anywhere in the world that I can say I would never travel to, given the opportunity.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
We ship owners and our predecessors, all the way back to the dawn of history, operating in majority on private initiative and at our own risk, have been linking the world together much more effectively than governments ever managed to do or will likely ever be capable of doing.
I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.
I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!
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