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Today, when so much depends on our informed action, we as voters and taxpayers can no longer afford to confuse science and technology, to confound “pure” science and “applied” science.

— 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.

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.

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

Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence (1973)

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

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