58 Quotes by Thor Heyerdahl

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.

Pearls rarely turn up in oysters served to you on a plate; you have to dive for them.

But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it’s absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator.

The task of science is investigation pure and simple,” he said quietly. “Not to try to prove this or that.” He.

But you can’t navigate a raft,” he added. “It goes sideways and backward and round as the wind takes it.

Otherwise he was glad we had missed our landing, for he still had three books to read.

Through a misunderstanding one native visitor was shot on board one of the ships, and a dozen others were shot ashore, while the Europeans got off with the loss of one tablecloth and of a few hats which were stolen while they had them on their heads.

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world’s most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.