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“Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.”

Jacques Yves Cousteau · History

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Jacques Yves Cousteau

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.

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Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

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Jacques Yves Cousteau

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

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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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