"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists."
-Jacques Yves Cousteau
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"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.“
-Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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."
-Jacques Yves Cousteau
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"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."
-Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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."
-Jacques Yves Cousteau
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"No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity."
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"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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-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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