We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
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CHARLES DURNING We worry about losing our memory, yet there are things we wish we could forget. MICHAEL LIPSEY We didn't even know about this fish. There were a lot of serendipitous discoveries about this fish t... DALE SARVER While human spaceflight is certainly compelling – and it has always been a big part of my reportin... NANCY ATKINSON Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't ... A. R. AMMONS I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And t... MARTIN SCORSESE I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many... BO JACKSON I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corne... WALTER JON WILLIAMS I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five... 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I think there are ways that... MATTHEW DESMOND There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been d... SIMON TRAVAGLIA There is so much being discovered about human origins. Five years ago, the oldest fossils of hominid... CARL ZIMMER We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are ... NADINE VELAZQUEZ We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't. ALAN GREENSPAN Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary ... BRUCE WILKINSON We've recognized that Twitter is the second screen for TV, and TV is more fun with Twitter. Ther... DICK COSTOLO The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there wi... AHMED ZEWAIL I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying... SAMMY HAGAR There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowe... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from v... ALISON GOPNIK Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourse... RACHEL JOYCE We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read ... ANNE HATHAWAY Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's k... FRANCIS COLLINS There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't ... CHARLES BASS My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only ... ERIC FELLNER There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more mel... SUN TZU Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. 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AMANDA HEARST There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can'... SAM SHEPARD Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be ... CORNEILLE EWANGO We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures... GILLIAN FLYNN We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine ... CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Twenty percent of our population is made up of children, yet children are 100 percent of our future, CHRIS DODD We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world,... CATE BLANCHETT In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about lib... ABIGAIL WASHBURN Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ... RAY BRADBURY As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things... CARMEN EJOGO About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've e... NATHAN WOLFE Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less impo... JANE GOODALL There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equa... ADAM SCHIFF There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I ... IAN MACKAYE In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ... ERICH HOEBER There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imp... BABA KALYANI In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, ... 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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age. EDITH WIDDER Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a ... EDITH WIDDER One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably... EDITH WIDDER We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti... EDITH WIDDER In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapago... EDITH WIDDER It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent ... EDITH WIDDER I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organ... EDITH WIDDER I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre... EDITH WIDDER The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator. EDITH WIDDER If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the anima... EDITH WIDDER Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sp... EDITH WIDDER For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bio... EDITH WIDDER I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&... EDITH WIDDER It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that... EDITH WIDDER Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in ... EDITH WIDDER We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there... EDITH WIDDER There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tel... EDITH WIDDER During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s... EDITH WIDDER Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw... EDITH WIDDER Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunate... EDITH WIDDER Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. EDITH WIDDER Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's al... EDITH WIDDER I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolog... EDITH WIDDER In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce... EDITH WIDDER I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh... EDITH WIDDER Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator t... EDITH WIDDER I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a met... EDITH WIDDER The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. ... EDITH WIDDER If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,... EDITH WIDDER The time of declining working hours in the public sector in Germany is over. The train is going in t... GERHARD WIDDER The result is that the people in our cities will have to continue to endure the strike. GERHARD WIDDER True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. EDITH WHARTON As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac... EDITH PIAF What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th... EDITH HAMILTON He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great... EDITH HAMILTON There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. EDITH WHARTON I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time... EDITH WHARTON He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. EDITH WHARTON The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. EDITH WHARTON In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. EDITH WHARTON To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ... EDITH WHARTON I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in... EDITH WHARTON There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise... EDITH WHARTON Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br... EDITH WHARTON Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. EDITH WHARTON The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. EDITH WHARTON Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. EDITH WHARTON The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th... EDITH STEIN All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself... EDITH STEIN A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un... EDITH STEIN During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert... EDITH STEIN The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex... EDITH STEIN Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot... EDITH STEIN Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into... EDITH STEIN As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people... EDITH STEIN Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s... EDITH STEIN The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ... EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t... EDITH STEIN Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology... EDITH STEIN Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t... EDITH STEIN On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co... EDITH STEIN Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ... EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t... EDITH STEIN The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli... EDITH STEIN The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are. EDITH STEIN In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ... EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev... EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him. EDITH STEIN My longing for truth was a single prayer. EDITH STEIN This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ... EDITH STEIN Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever... EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous... EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am... EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a... EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki... EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from. EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki... EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf... EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min... EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b... EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be... EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ... EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin... EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow. EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit... EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ... EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr... EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo... EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'... EDITH PEARLMAN I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m... EDITH PEARLMAN The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future. EDITH PEARLMAN I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w... EDITH PEARLMAN I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie. EDITH HEAD I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be... EDITH HEAD I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie. EDITH HEAD With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star... EDITH HEAD Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col... EDITH HEAD Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i... EDITH HEAD As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothi... EDITH HEAD We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressin... EDITH HEAD If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J... EDITH HEAD You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear ... EDITH HEAD A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your ... EDITH HEAD There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter. EDITH HEAD Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear. EDITH HEAD Some people need sequins, others don't. EDITH HEAD I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is m... EDITH HEAD My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes. EDITH HEAD Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca... EDITH HEAD You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it. EDITH HEAD What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of chan... EDITH HEAD The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a... EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ... EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. EDITH HAMILTON What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. EDITH EVANS A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he... EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations. EDITH EVANS I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ... EDITH EVANS I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. EDITH CAVELL There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo... EDITH WHARTON Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. EDITH SUMMERSKILL I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame... EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. EDITH WHARTON I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ... EDITH SITWELL Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho... EDITH WHARTON Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a... EDITH SITWELL The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ... EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to... EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show... EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God. EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does... EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet... EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a... EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio... EDITH HAMILTON I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k... EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ... EDITH ARMSTRONG There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle... EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a... EDITH WHARTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,... EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't. EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c... EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove... EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. EDITH SITWELL Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret... EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh... EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio... EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t... EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality. EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. EDITH SITWELL Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi... EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t... EDITH HEAD Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo... EDITH STEIN Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a... EDITH HEAD I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth... EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. EDITH WHARTON Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful... EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all... EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli... EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ... EDITH SITWELL Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M... EDITH HEAD Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'... EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri... EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ... EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard. EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey. EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD