87 Quotes by Jacques Yves Cousteau

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 happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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