For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.
The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
I never thought that I was very intelligent.
I did not come to NASA to make history.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.