“We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.”
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Apsley Cherry-Garrard was an English explorer and author, renowned for his participation in the Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole under Captain Robert Falcon Scott. He is the author of 'The Worst Journey in the World', a compelling narrative of the expedition. more
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