Auguste Piccard Quotes

Switzerland, Physicist
January 28, 1884 – March, 24, 1962.

Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer, known for his record-breaking helium-filled balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere. Auguste was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.

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

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- Life
- Travel
- Worth
Smoking is a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

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As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing flying were laughed at as mad, and that scorn hindered aviation. Now we heap similar ridicule upon stratoplane or rocket ships for trans-Atlantic flights.

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Exploration is the sport of the scientist.

Auguste Piccard