“If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you.”
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”
“For scientific discovery, give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel, give me Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when you are seeing no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton”
“That’s always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think they’re just never going to hurt you, then they do. That’s when you get the worst heartbreak.”
“Get this under control as soon as you can young lady, because no one here gives a damn about your unlimited power-Mason Lerner”