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 COUSTEAUIt 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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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 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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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People protect what they love.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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