"Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses: on the day that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second, all civilised nations will surely recoil with horror and disband their troops."
Alfred Nobel
Source: War and Peace in Alfred Nobel's Thinking, http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/biographical/articles/tagil/index.html, accessed April 6 2009.
"My motive in seeking out new sites to explore, in diving even deeper, in staying below even longer, in filming, in fighting, was, certainly, the satisfaction of my curiosity about the sea. But it was also an emotional, almost sexual need . . . I was biologically drawn to the sea, but I knew very well that I would never succeed in possessing it totally."
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Source: Richard Munson "Obituary: Jacques Cousteau". Independent, The (London). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970626/ai_n14101465/, accessed April 6 2009.
"Obviously, when you make a breakthrough, it is very exciting. But I get very excited regularly about small results in the lab, which would mean nothing to lots of people."
Keith Campbell
Source: MBLWHOI Library "Cloning Dolly, How and Why?", http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/lecture_series/campbell/transcript.html, accessed April 6 2009.
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