But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
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.
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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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 will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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