Heyerdahl Raft Quotes & Sayings

From the least parochial perspectives available to us, people are the most significant entities in the cosmic scheme of things. They are not 'supported' by their environments, but support themselves by creating knowledge. Once they have suitable knowledge (essentially, the knowledge of the Enlightenment), they are capable of sparking unlimited further progress. — David Deutsch

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare. — Stephanie Beatriz

When a society removes moral responsibility by belief that the acquisition of knowledge comes from an unknown and mysterious venue, it loses its ability for rational conceptualization of values because they are stripped from the reality of this life and placed in an imaginary next life, which is a recipe for disaster. — Al Stefanelli

The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. — Henry David Thoreau

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you ... Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do. — John Mayer

But he was a tease. Like a woman! Like a Child! In fact, he wouldn't be surprised if SL was a woman after all! — Belinda Bauer

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory. — J. David Lewis-Williams

Books tended not to switch their stories whenever it suited them. — David Mitchell

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind. — Okakura Kakuzo

Because my love for you is like a glass rose. Care for it gently. Drop it once, you'd leave a mark. Drop it twice, and my heart will shatter into a million pieces. — Melissa M. Futrell

But you can't navigate a raft," he added. "It goes sideways and backward and round as the wind takes it. — Thor Heyerdahl

Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN. — Thor Heyerdahl

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation. — Nikolai Gogol