Mark Adams > Quotes

“Anything not stated explicitly in a narrative is likely to be forgotten over time. If two thousand years from now humans are cannibals who have obliterated the earth’s forests and live in houses made of gingerbread, the story of Hansel and Gretel will require footnotes.”
― Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

“Wittgenstein had helped fake the moon landings.”
― Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

“(Carl Sagan, among the grooviest and most open-minded of astrophysicists, practically choked on his turtleneck whenever given the chance to denounce Velikovsky’s theories.)”
― Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

“Atlantipedia,”
― Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

“Poseidon is really the god of the great unchained forces of nature, whereas Athena is the goddess of what human beings can do to combat that: with techne, know-how.”
― Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

“May 10, 2807 BC.”
― Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

“The Polynesians, she pointed out, were able to voyage thousands of miles and locate the tiny speck of Easter Island centuries before Columbus sailed. It hardly seems possible that they never continued on to find the entire west coast of the Americas.”
― Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

“We shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to inquire than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know.”
― Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

“Just because my kids’ snow days always seem to occur on my babysitter’s day off doesn’t mean she controls the weather.”
― Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

“The Sapa Inca—“not only a secular ruler but also the head of the state religion,” according to Reinhard—relied on his status as the son of the sun to support his claim to power. For this reason, the cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) were crucial to Inca beliefs, according to the Spanish chronicles.”
― Mark Adams, Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

“ama sua, ama llula, ama cheklla. Translated, it means “do not steal, do not lie, do not be lazy.”
― Mark Adams, Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

“archaeoastronomy,” or the study of how ancient peoples incorporated the sun, moon and stars into their daily lives.”
― Mark Adams, Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

“Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Explorer”: Something hidden. Go and find it.
Go and look behind the Ranges—
Something lost behind the Ranges.
Lost and waiting for you. Go!”
― Mark Adams, Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time