Mawson Quotes

#1. We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

John F. Kennedy

#2. Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.

Douglas Mawson

#3. Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

Werner Heisenberg

#4. We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.

Douglas Mawson

#5. in the reign of the emperor Nero, when someone had the bright idea to make slaves wear uniforms, it was rejected on the grounds that this would make clear to the slave population just how numerous they were.

Mary Beard

#6. This best time to Nap is ... after the one before.

Mawson Bear

#7. Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.

Stanislav Grof

#8. Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.

Robert Penn Warren

#9. Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.

Monica Crowley

#10. You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Bill Walton

#11. In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

Douglas Mawson

#12. I would rather die than betray his trust."
"That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed.
"Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.

J.K. Rowling

#13. Your heart is everything. Why else would God ask for it first? I mean, why not ask for your mind? Your soul? Instead, God asks for our hearts.

Rachel Van Dyken

#14. There can be no sustainable development without sustainable energy development

Margot Wallstrom