If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years. — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years. — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women! — Robert Ballard Copy Share
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years. — Robert Ballard Copy Share
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it? — Robert Ballard Copy Share
My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on… — Robert Ballard Copy Share
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard Copy Share
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. — Robert Ballard Copy Share
There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's… — Robert Ballard Copy Share
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona. — Robert Ballard Copy Share
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing. — Robert Ballard Copy Share
The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was… — Robert Ballard Copy Share
