There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.
Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.
Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore. . . . If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.
All that we can hope from these inspirations, which are the fruits of unconscious work, is to obtain points of departure for such calculations. As for the calculations themselves, they must be made in the second period of conscious work which follows the inspiration, and in which the results of the inspiration are verified and the consequences deduced.
Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
If anti-gay stuff is always coming out of your mouth, something very gay is probably going in.
Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.