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Jacques Yves Cousteau

"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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"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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"The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years."
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"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
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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 awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets."
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"The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. 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."
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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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"The sea is the universal sewer."
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"Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians."
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