Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I don't agree with that estimate. People don't realize that water in the liquid state is very rare in the universe. Away from earth it is usually a gas. This moisture is a blessed treasure, and it is our basic duty, if we don't want to commit suicide, to preserve it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Suicide, Blessed, Ocean

• 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.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Science, Men, Curiosity

  Christian Science Monitor, July 21, 1971.

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Science, Scientist

  Christian Science Monitor, July 24, 1986.

• There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Science, Sea, Goggles

• I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Science, Air, Space

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