Why Travel to the Antarctic?

But why, it has been asked, did you go there [the Antarctic]? Of what use to civilization can this lifeless continent be? ... [Earlier] expeditions contributed something to the accumulating knowledge of the Antarctic ... that helps us thrust back further the physical and spiritual shadows enfolding our terrestrial existence. Is it not true that one of the strongest and most continuously sustained impulses working in civilization is that which leads to discovery? As long as any part of the world remains obscure, the curiosity of man must draw him there, as the lodestone draws the mariner's needle, until he comprehends its secret.

Notes:

Because the curiosity of man takes us everywhere.

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Hoover Presents Special Medal to Byrd...

Periodicals>Newsletter Article: Byrd, Richard (21 Jun 1930), Hoover Presents Special Medal to Byrd..., New York Times, Retrieved on 2012-01-28

Folksonomies: exploration