But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUHowever fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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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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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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