All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

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.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.