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Fridtjof Nansen Quotes

1861–1930 Norway

Fridtjof Nansen (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth he was a champion skier and ice skater.

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The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than to go to church and think of sport.

They hold it atrocious to kill a fellow creature; therefore war is in their eyes incomprehensible and repulsive, a thing for which their language has no word.

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness towards light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer man.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fridtjof Nansen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.