Jacques yves cousteau

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

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 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.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.