Marine Biologist

🇺🇸Dixy Lee Ray

Politics

1914–1994

"Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle."

🇺🇸Rachel Carson

Literature

1907–1964

"RachelCarson.org The life and legacy of Rachel Carson"

🇺🇸Edwin Grant Conklin

Science

1863–1952

"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory."

🇯🇵Hirohito

Economics

1901–1989

"when there is no other option than to lose our own people, the best option is to fight to the very end."

🇺🇸William Beebe

Science

1877–1962

"The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living."

🇺🇸Sylvia Earle

Science

b. 1935

"No ocean, no life. No blue, no green. No ocean, no us."

"We are part of the ecosystem, although because we did not evolve as humans, I feel we are like an invasive species. The bottom line is that we take out of the ocean what we like, and throw in what we don’t want."

🇺🇸Heidi Sosik

Science

"I was drawn to oceanography by just this kind of challenge. To me it represents the perfect intersection of science, technology and the unknown, the spark for so many breakthrough discoveries about life on our planet."

"I had jars in my bedroom, much to the chagrin of my mother, you couldn't throw away a mayonnaise jar in my house. That was a specimen jar."

"The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own."

🇺🇸Ed Ricketts

Science

1897–1948

"The first director of Hopkins didn’t get along with him so Ricketts would have to wait until he was out of town to sneak into the library with the help of some sympathetic professor."