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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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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.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time (28 March 1960)
“Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time (28 March 1960)
“The sea is the universal sewer.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Declaring the sea to be "where all kinds of pollution wind up", to the US House Committee on Science and Astronautics (28 January 1971)
“We must plant the sea and herd its animals … using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about — farming replacing hunting.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (17 July 1971); Cited in: Elizabeth Brubaker et al. (2008) Breath of Fresh Air, p. 180
“Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (17 July 1971): Cited in: Jane Goodall et al. (2005) Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating.
“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed — if we are not willing — we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (17 July 1971)}
“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 (1910–1997) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christian Science Monitor (21 July 1971)
“Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence (1973)
“I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christian Science Monitor (24 July 1986)
“The glory of nature provides evidence that God exists”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted in The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World (2010), Ch. 5. Bloomsbury Publishing.
“I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans — there will always be life — but they're getting sicker every year.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (March 1996)}
“In the last few decades, a terribly pernicious rumor has been circulated by the press. It claims, exhibiting a level of stupidity heretofore considered impossible, that a human being could crawl through the arteries of a blue whale. Of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. I do not know why this deleterious rumor has been systematically repeated, but its very existence is an ugly cancer upon the face of science.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence (1973)
“We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (March 1996)}
“Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and turn headlong down an immutable course.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Silent World by Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau with Frederic Dumas 2004 National Geographic Society, pg. 5