“I'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the yea...” — Sylvia Earle Quote

“I'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.”

“Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.”

“We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.”

“I always felt that I had a childhood. I went to regular school whenever I wasn't working. At one point, I wanted to be a marine biologist.”

“Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions.”

“If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.”