Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Existence

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher. Explore interesting quotes on existence.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau: 42 quotes 47 likes

“The glory of nature provides evidence that God exists”

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

as quoted in The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=5JAUkrhPJQIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (2010), Ch. 5. Bloomsbury Publishing.

God , Nature

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

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Bee , Happiness

“In the last few decades, a terribly pernicious rumor has been circulated by the press. It claims, exhibiting a level of stupidity heretofore considered impossible, that a human being could crawl through the arteries of a blue whale. Of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. I do not know why this deleterious rumor has been systematically repeated, but its very existence is an ugly cancer upon the face of science.”

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence (1973)

Truth , Stupidity , Science