Quotes by Oceanographers

The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.
Padma Venkatraman
If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope and we can work.
Jacques Cousteau
If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope.
Jacques Cousteau
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
Jacques Cousteau
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.
Matthew Fontaine Maury
The library was my only blessing. Every time I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted. All day, I looked forward to the happy hours I spent in that beautiful room. My guilt over appa's fate was too heavy to carry up there, and I learned to leave it below, somewhere on the ground floor. I left the house far behind as I walked on the path paved by the books, and every evening, baby Mangalam slept soundly on the bed I made for her on the window seat.
Padma Venkatraman
You don't have to climb ladders to reach God. He dances within all He creates.
Padma Venkatraman
The trick here is arbitrary word assignment: that is, any violence engaged in by ourselves or our friends is ipso facto retaliation and counter-terrorism; whatever the enemy does is terrorism, irrespective of facts.’10 We might say, then, that the golden rule of state violence is: terrorism is what they do, and counter-terrorism is what we do. As Orwell himself observed in his essay, ‘Notes on Nationalism’: ‘Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage – torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians – which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by “our” side.
David Cromwell
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
Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.
Padma Venkatraman
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.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I can dance beauty into my body
Padma Venkatraman