"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."

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Source : "Two-Way Ticket to Paradise', book review of Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva". The New York Times, August 29, 1975.

Thor Heyerdahl

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“Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.”
“War is the enemy of all mankind.”
“Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.”

Source : "Washington Post Magazine: Real Life". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2008.
“We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.”

Source : James Harvey Robinson (2015). “The Mind in Making”, p.26, Read Books Ltd
“I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.”
“There's no safer investment in the world than in the United States.”

Source : Briefing by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 13, 2009.
“If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.”
“He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.”

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