Graham Hawkes Quotes

#1. I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

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#2. The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's very civilized, like a slow ballet.

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#3. Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

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#4. Science is about filling in the details.

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#5. Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.

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#6. If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

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#7. Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.

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#8. Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

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#9. I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we're nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages.

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#10. Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

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#11. The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

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#12. One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

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#13. I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

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#14. There's something just magical about flight. Period.

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#15. The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

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#16. The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.

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#17. With the super-wealthy, I think what a lot of them want isn't things, it's experiences. Preferably ones that few people can have.

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#18. If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.

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#19. 'Earth' is a silly name for this planet.

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