We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.

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.