“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.”

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

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.

But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

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.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.

The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.

When I listen to Amy Winehouse, I believe that her heart and soul is in the music, or if I listen to other British artists like Duffy or Estelle. The aesthetic of it is different, and it’s my point of view. It’s not anything formulaic.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

I guess we’ll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other… but I couldn’t really see my life without them, both of them.

There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.