Robert Ballard Quotes

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• It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
• I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
• Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
• There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
• 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.
• The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"
• I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take…
• 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…
• Don't confuse facts with reality.
• 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…
• Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
• 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 finders…
• The Titanic will protect itself.
• I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72…
• Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to…
• The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.
• Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
• 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…
• Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?
• Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm…

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