Matthew Fontaine Maury Quotes

• Hay un río en el océano. En las sequías más severas nunca falla, y en las inundaciones más poderosas nunca se desborda. Sus orillas y su fondo son de agua fría, mientras que su corriente es de agua caliente. El Golfo de México es su fuente, y su desembocadura está en el Mar Ártico. Es la corriente del Golfo.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Ocean, Science, Sea

  Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855). “The Physical Geography of the Sea”, p.25

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• The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Science, Numbers, May

  Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858). “The Physical Geography of the Sea”, p.147

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• Cada hecho físico, cada expresión de la naturaleza, cada rasgo de la tierra, la obra de todos y cada uno de los agentes que hacen de la faz del mundo lo que es, y tal como lo vemos, es interesante e instructivo. Hasta que no nos apoderamos de un grupo de hechos físicos, no sabemos qué importancia práctica pueden tener, aunque los hombres de mente recta saben que contienen muchas joyas preciosas, que la ciencia o la mano experta de la filosofía no dejarán de sacar a la luz, pulidas y brillantes, y bellamente adaptadas a los propósitos del hombre.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Nature, Philosophy, Hard Work

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• It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Time, Science, People

  Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858). “Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts”, p.91

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• Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand, and imposing. The very ribs of the solid earth, with the foundations of the sea, would be brought to light, and we should have presented to us at one view the empty cradle of the ocean.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Ocean, Views, Should Have

  Matthew Fontaine Maury, United States Naval Observatory (1858). “Explanations and sailing directions to accompany the Wind and current charts: approved by Captain D. N. Ingraham, chief of the Bureau of ordnance and hydrography, and pub. by authority of Hon. Isaac Toucey, secretary of the Navy”, p.167

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