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.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

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.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

People protect what they love.

Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

Was that you or the duck?

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

Yes, the fans are going to get their money's worth. It's like...and everything on there is funny. It's not like random crap they put in a movie. I think it's all very funny, so.

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.