What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUWe must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about – farming replacing hunting.
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
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We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about – farming replacing hunting.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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