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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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Jacques Yves Cousteau
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 11
Died: 1997
Died: June 25
Biologist
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The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.
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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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From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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The sea is not a bargain basement.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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