"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists."

“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.”

“The Cousteau Society”

“Costeau at the My Hero Project”

“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.”

“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.”

“Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.”