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.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUIf we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
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But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
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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.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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