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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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