Let's hope someone will map out a methodical plan for space exploration, like the one Eisenhower drew up, instead of wasting time and money with more fits-and-starts.

Beauty is found not in the structured but in the unstructured, it is not found in the perfect but the imperfect not in similarities but in differences.

Methodical and careful, Amundsen was also a man of towering ambition, prey to the same dangerous dreams and impulses that drive all explorers to risk their lives in wild places.