“the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious.”

“The more you know, the less you need.”

“The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this wont happen if you compromise away the entire process.”

“most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.”

“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”

“Everything we personally own thats made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that were either directly responsible fo...”

“By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined.”

“Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”

“But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity ...”

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”

“We only have one life (unless youre a cat or a Buddhist) and its often dictated to us by what society tells us we should do. So we normalize and accept the paradox. We glamorize busy, but long to t...”

“The price of success is the risk of self-esteem.”