William Stone Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by William Stone:

Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground.
~William Stone


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There are plenty of people on Earth. It’s not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don’t come back. Exploration is dangerous.
~William Stone


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If you don’t come home with data, you’ve done nothing.
~William Stone


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Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It’s been far more deliberate than that.
~William Stone


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Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn’t like the situation underwater at any time during the mission.
~William Stone


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Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.
~William Stone


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