Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

- Thor Heyerdahl

Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing …

- 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 ocean, more th…

- Thor Heyerdahl

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

- Thor Heyerdahl

Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of…

- 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 and out in nature. On such…

- Thor Heyerdahl

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cor…

- Thor Heyerdahl

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

- Thor Heyerdahl

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

- Thor Heyerdahl