Quotes from Richard Evelyn Byrd

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.

Just as the long night of the Arctic ends, the brilliant sunshine of Truth shall come again... and those who are of darkness shall fall in its Light... FOR I HAVE SEEN THAT LAND BEYOND THE POLE, THAT CENTER OF THE GREAT UNKNOWN.

Next morning, when I got up, the inside temperature was 30° below zero. The new arrangement was working quite nicely indeed.

Next morning, when I got up, the inside temperature was 300 below zero. The new arrangement was working quite nicely indeed.

Behind every legend, strange to say, can be found a kernel of truth, a group of facts around which the legend was built.

Scientists say that it is impossible for any life to exist deep underground, that the Earth is solid through and through. However, at this point in time, no scientist has actually ever been far enough underground to prove their theories.

Why is the sun invisible so long in winter near the farthest points north or south?

He who may have failed back there has his chance to make good here;

He who may have failed back there has his chance to make good here; and he will not be judged by the position he holds so much as by the way he plays the game and does his job, however humble it may be....