No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNow, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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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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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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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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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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