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Oceanographer Inspirational Quotes (243)

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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
Sylvia Earle
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Ironically the very energy, the very basis of how we know what we know, has been reliant on having an energy source [necessary] to build rockets to go to the moon and Mars, to support airplanes that fly, and satellites to give us our communication.
Sylvia Earle
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Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks
Wallace Smith Broecker
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The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they will get a chance to pursue happiness and perhaps will be able to develop toward the ultimate goal of creation.
Richard E. Byrd
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The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.
Walter Munk
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What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well.
Walter Munk
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We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations.
Walter Munk
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We still have hope it is what keeps us going.
Walter Munk
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People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle.
Walter Munk
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The isness of things is well worth studying but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.
William Beebe
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Earth has few secrets from the birds.
William Beebe
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The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.
William Beebe
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To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.
William Beebe
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A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.
William Beebe
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Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.
William Beebe
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We want to think of ourselves as truly special creatures that are unique in the universe and, well, we are. And we have that capacity to wonder, to question, and to see ourselves in the context of all of life that has preceded the present time, and all that will go off far into the future, one way or another.
Sylvia Earle
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The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth... our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.
Sylvia Earle
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Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the we. It's the social connections that are special to human beings.
Sylvia Earle
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I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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The sea is not a bargain basement.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.
David Titley
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I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.
Robert Ballard
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Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.
Richard E. Byrd
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Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.
Sylvia Earle
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