Jacques Cousteau Quotes

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

I'm very interested in science.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Science is about unravelling nature.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.