Hawaiians Quotes

“...a true Hawaiian doesn't eat until he is full, he eats until he is tired.”
― Paul Malmont, Jack London in Paradise: A Novel

“The native Hawaiians are a great nation of people and as the years have passed my respect for them has grown. During the same time I have lost respect for what I now know to be the biologically toxic field of high altitude astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“Aloha sacred mountain, aloha ancient Hawaiians.”
― Steven Magee

“It is a wise person that does not anger the Hawaiians.”
― Steven Magee

“It is ironic that astronomy is the study of the heavens, but astronomers willfully fail to understand the Hawaiians beliefs regarding their heavens.”
― Steven Magee

“The Hawaiians have closed the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) and they should never be allowed to reopen.”
― Steven Magee

“I came to the belief that Mauna Kea was indeed sacred because all the visions that I had on the mountain were of Hawaiians.”
― Steven Magee

“I have great respect for Hawaiians and their unique culture.”
― Steven Magee

“The Hawaiians are smart to fill up the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea with law enforcement officers that are developing Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) that may eventually lead to High Altitude Diseases (HAD) many years later.”
― Steven Magee

“The night shift workers were unusual characters. They ranged from relatively normal to bizarre. It was widely acknowledged within the group that most personalities were abnormal. It was consistent with the sleep deprivation they were subjected to. The winter nights were really long and the days were too short for sufficient restorative sleeping. I was hallucinating while driving atop Mauna Kea! Inside the telescope control room I could feel a presence and would go looking for the person I thought was in the control room with me. I never found them. The summit is a spiritual place according to the Hawaiians. I most certainly had an invisible friend up there!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“When I saw the Hawaiians being arrested for protesting the development of the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea and the police officers being taken to the hospital, I knew the science of ‘Altitude Sickness’ needed to be progressed as rapidly as possible.”
― Steven Magee

“The government of Hawaii has been arresting the native Hawaiians that are objecting to the development of Mauna Kea. The Hawaiians regard it as the most sacred place in Hawaii. They view the summit of Mauna Kea as their place of worship and they regard the Mauna Kea Observatories as desecration. Could you imagine several of the world’s largest telescopes being built at the Vatican in the middle of St. Peter’s Square? It is the same thing!”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain