Athelstan Spilhaus Quote

The science of oceanography is not a discipline but an adventure wherein any discipline or combination of disciplines may be focused on understanding and using the sea and all that is in it.


Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1964, The Future of Oceanography (p. 361)


The science of oceanography is not a discipline but an adventure wherein any discipline or combination of disciplines may be focused on understanding ...

The science of oceanography is not a discipline but an adventure wherein any discipline or combination of disciplines may be focused on understanding ...

The science of oceanography is not a discipline but an adventure wherein any discipline or combination of disciplines may be focused on understanding ...

The science of oceanography is not a discipline but an adventure wherein any discipline or combination of disciplines may be focused on understanding ...