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 COUSTEAUWhat 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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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 will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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