Author of quotes: Thor Heyerdahl. Page 2

If usually American and Russian rarely get a chance to get acquainted, then "RA" two of them were thoroughly studied each other. If the Arabs and the Jews were natural enemies, one of the crew members have gone overboard. If God allowed only one faith, we have on Board broke to a religious war. We represented the Babylonian mixture of speaking eight languages, but in reality usually spoke English, Italian and French.

The combination of approval and reaction - here the main engine of scientific research. Approval - coveted reward, the counter - challenge that do not allow to calm down... the Opposition, objections, and sometimes destruction is necessary to go to scientific truth, to expand the limits of human knowledge.

One of the most useful lessons that taught me life, is that man remains man, whether he is a Norwegian, Polynesian, American, Italian or Russian, when and where he lived in stone or atomic age, under palm trees or at the edge of the glacier. Good and evil, courage and fear, intelligence and stupidity do not recognize geographical boundaries, they are there in every human... we are All people, we should remember this and strive for friendship, understanding and cooperation, so that mankind can survive on our small planet, correcting all that was ruined in the centuries due to lack of knowledge and respect for others.

I have accumulated something to think about, and best thinking in solitude under the stars.

We all had one thing is clear: if the raft will crumble to pieces upon leaving the Harbor, we would prefer to sail in Polynesia, each on a separate log, but do not dare to go back.

The world was simple - stars in the darkness. Whether it was 1947 BC or ad suddenly lost all meaning. We lived, and we felt it acutely. We realized that life had been full for men before the onset of the age of technology - perhaps, in many ways fuller and richer than the life of modern man. Time and evolution in these moments ceased to exist. Everything in human life was real and had value today remains the same as it once was and always will be. We dissolved in absolute universal measure of history, endless impenetrable darkness under a swarm of stars.

Learning to write is easy, to invent a written language difficult. It's hard to think up that word to Express a mute character and to consolidate in time.

The President knew English more than double my Spanish; after we exchanged greetings and he motioned me to sit down, our vocabulary was exhausted.

We like to think of progress as a struggle of modern man to more people, got good food, warm clothes, a spacious housing to improve medical care for the sick, to eliminate the threat of war, to reduce crime and corruption, to ensure the young and old more happy life. But the call progress and much more... Improved weapons, so they can kill more people at a greater distance - progress. Little man becomes a giant, which is enough to press the button and the globe shattered into pieces - progress. Ordinary people wean to think, because others will show him what will happen if he clicks on the toggle switch or turn the handwheel, - progress. Specialization reaches such an extent that one person knows almost everything about anything, is progress. People are racking their brains over the problem of free time - progress. Reality becomes so dreary, what are we looking for from her rescue, sitting and staring at the entertainment, which brings us to the glowing box - progress. When you have to invent a pill to cure diseases caused by other pills is also progress. And when hospitals grow up like mushrooms because our heads are overloaded, and bodies underdeveloped, because the heart is empty, and guts full of fact that slipped advertising. And when the farmer throws the hoe, and the fisherman - a network to meet the Assembly line, because field grows the company that turns fish the river into a cesspool.

Everyone who arrives in Tahiti, wrote a book about his journey. To bought a book, it will certainly have to paint Paradise. Otherwise who will read it?

The history of mankind can appear in a distorted form only because the earlier people could not do enough to preserve the documents.

The man - servant of a little mechanism that keeps the time going, it's time to do so-and-so, hurry, don't hesitate.

Not to strain, we prisobachivat motors to bicycles, boats, lawn mowers, to razors and tooth brushes. Hatch overtime to pay for all these items, then run to the doctor because processed, ate too much and got stress.

Border? Never seen them but heard that they exist in the minds of most people.
(The border? Not seen one. However, I heard that they are in the minds of some people.)