Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent. — 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 Image
Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
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
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it? — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
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 Image
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
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 Image
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona. — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunlight-previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life-has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical…” quote by Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/623/robert-ballard-13392_black_the-fact-that-this-chain-of-life-existed_1174978.jpg)