Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell you, the teachers tell you when they grade you. I think that's very good in the early stages,… — 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
