Ability Quote by Thor Heyerdahl

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to…

— Thor Heyerdahl

We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of…

— Thor Heyerdahl

“Progress can today be defined as man's ability to complicate simplicity.”

— 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…

— Thor Heyerdahl

It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man and woman…

— Thor Heyerdahl

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

— Thor Heyerdahl

Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet … No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The…

— Thor Heyerdahl

“It was a great moment on board when two large boobies were spotted above the horizon to westward”

— Thor Heyerdahl

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

— Thor Heyerdahl

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of…

— Thor Heyerdahl

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…

— Thor Heyerdahl

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…

— Thor Heyerdahl