Oceanographer

🇺🇸Orrin H. Pilkey

Science

1934–2024

"The objectivity of the IPCC documents is laudable. But the fact that the group recognizes its model weaknesses and is trying to improve them doesn't make its conclusions stronger or more believable. ."

🇺🇸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."

🇩🇪Alexander von Humboldt

Philosophy

1767–1835

"Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things."