Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes

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.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

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.

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.

But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.