Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO RNwas a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–1904, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–1913. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Polar Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912 after Roald...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth6 June 1868
I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.
I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.
Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.
Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.
To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny to an outside company.
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
Each man in his way is a treasure.
It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.
Great God! This is an awful place.
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.