Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they will get a chance to pursue happiness and perhaps will be able to develop toward the ultimate goal of creation.

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze.