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"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"
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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."
"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
"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."
"The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it."
"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. 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. 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."
"No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity."
"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets."
"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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