Auguste Piccard Quote

To climb the highest peaks, to travel through new area of celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.


Translated by Christina Stead, Earth, Sky and Sea, Introduction (p. xii)


To climb the highest peaks, to travel through new area of celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what...

To climb the highest peaks, to travel through new area of celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what...

To climb the highest peaks, to travel through new area of celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what...

To climb the highest peaks, to travel through new area of celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what...