Jacques Yves Cousteau
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau AC was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth11 June 1910
CountryFrance
Jacques Yves Cousteau quotes about
two excess-baggage goal
The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.
peace warfare organize
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?
science scientist
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
live-concerts generosity roles
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
ocean sea conservation
The sea is the universal sewer.
damage-is-done earth century
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
motivational positive succeed
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
ocean years sick
I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.
educational captivity would-be
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement
leadership opportunity men
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
ocean nutrition found
The future of nutrition is found in the oceans
ocean men free-diving
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free,
moon sea space
In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon
ocean men hands
Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.