It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWe forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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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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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about – farming replacing hunting.
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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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