Dennis Sciama (1926–1999) British physicist
Preface, p. vii
Modern Cosmology (1971)
Dennis Sciama (1926–1999) British physicist
Preface, p. vii
Modern Cosmology (1971)
“I hate travelling and explorers.”
Claude Lévi-Strauss book Tristes Tropiques
Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Ch. 1 : Setting Out, p. 17
Context: I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions. But how long it has taken me to make up my mind to do so! It is now fifteen years since I left Brazil for the last time and all during this period I have often planned to undertake the present work but on each occasion a sort of shame and repugnance prevented me from making a start. Why, I asked myself, should I give a detailed account of so many trivial circumstances and insignificant happenings? Adventure has no place in the anthropologists profession; it is merely one of those unavoidable drawbacks, which detract from his effective work through the incidental loss of weeks or months; there are hours of inaction when the informant is not available; periods of hunger, exhaustion, sickness perhaps; and always the thousand and one dreary tasks which eat away the days to no purpose and reduce dangerous living in the heart of the virgin forest to an imitation of military service … The fact that so much effort and expenditure has to be wasted on reaching the object of our studies bestows no value on that aspect of our profession, and should be seen rather as its negative side. The truths which we seek so far afield only become valid when we have separated them from this dross.
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”
Jack Kerouac book Desolation Angels
Variant: Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
Source: Desolation Angels
Edwin Hubble (1889–1953) American astronomer
[Hubble, Edwin, 1929, May, The Exploration of Space, Harper's Magazine, 158, 732]
Alan Shepard (1923–1998) American astronaut
Edgar Mitchell — reported in St. Petersburg Times staff (July 23, 1998) "Alan Shepard Jr. 1923-1998 - Space pioneer", St. Petersburg Times, p. 1A.
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Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974) American artist
1950s, Conversations With Artists, 1957
Nicole Lapin (1984) American journalist
Interview with Men's Health Magazine. http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=style&category=style.files&conitem=2cfa694820a64110VgnVCM20000012281eac____ (September 2007)