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 COUSTEAUThe biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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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.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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People protect what they love.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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