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Fridtjof Nansen
(10 Oct 1861 - 13 May 1930)
Norwegian explorer, oceanographer and statesman.
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Science Quotes by Fridtjof Nansen (1 quote)
They had neither compass, nor astronomical instruments, nor any of the appliances of our time for finding their position at sea; they could only sail by the sun, moon, and stars, and it seems incomprehensible how for days and weeks, when these were invisible, they were able to find their course through fog and bad weather; but they found it, and in the open craft of the Norwegian Vikings, with their square sails, fared north and west over the whole ocean, from Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen to Greenland, Baffin Bay, Newfoundland, and North America.
— Fridtjof Nansen
In northern mists: Arctic exploration in early times - Volume 1 - Page 248
https://books.google.com/books?id=I1ugAAAAMAAJ
Fridtjof Nansen - 1911
See also:
- 10 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Nansen's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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