I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

God wears white flannels.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water