Martinius Bjornson Quotes & Sayings

We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

What you don't know going in is that when you come out, you will be scarred for life. Whether you were in for a week, a month, or a year - even if you come home without a scratch - you are never, ever going to be the same.
When I went in, I was eighteen. I thought it was all glory and you win lots of medals. You think you're going to be the guy. Then you find out the cost is very great. Especially when you don't see the kids you were with when you went in. Living with it can be hell. It's like the devil presides in you. I knew what I sighed up for, yes, and I would do it again. But the reality of war - words can't begin to describe it. — William Guarnere

You would attain to the divine perfection. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is. — Steven Weinberg

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) — Robert Ludlum

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years. — Edward Zander

But could something think, understand, and so on solely in virtue of being a computer with the right sort of program? Could instantiating a program, the right program of course, by itself be a sufficient condition of understanding?
This I think is the right question to ask, though it is usually confused with one or more of the earlier questions, and the answer to it is no. — John Rogers Searle

This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again. — Charles Lindbergh

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. — Norman Mailer

I, personally, would be shocked if we went to the end of the tape now and I didn't have at least one ... Look, even if I don't get one directly, eventually they're just going to have to give me one when I get old. So no matter how you slice it, I'm getting one. — Robert Downey Jr.