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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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Jacques Yves Cousteau
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 11
Died: 1997
Died: June 25
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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The sea is not a bargain basement.
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In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
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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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Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
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The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.
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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
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In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.
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I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
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I wake up saying, I'm still alive a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
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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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To restate an old law - when a man bites a fish, that's good, but when a fish bites a man, that's bad. This is one way of saying it's all right if man kills an animal, but if an animal attacks man, the act is reprehensible.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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How dangerous are those sea animals with bad reputations? A few actually kill. A few maim. Some are poisonous when eaten by man. Most sting, stab,or poison and cause mild to severe discomfort to man. Yet man is one of the larger beings that sea creatures encounter, and these poisons usually can't kill him.
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People protect what they love.
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There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.
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All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.
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