In 1930, Cousteau passed the highly competitive examinations to enter France's Naval Academy. He served in the navy and entered naval aviation school. A near-fatal car crash at age 26 denied him his wings, and he was transferred to sea duty, where he swam rigorously to strengthen badly weakened arms. The therapy had unintended consequences. "Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old,embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course," he wrote. "It happened to me ... on that summer's day, when my eyes were opened to the sea."
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads for us. ~Paul Eldridge, (1888-1982) ,Maxims for a Modern Man (1965)
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. P. B. Medawar:
A conservative is someone who does not think anything should be done for the first time. Frank Vanderlip
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. --Voltaire (1694-1778)
It's not a question of who's going to throw the first stone; it's a question of who's going to start building with it.--Sloan Wilson
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