Robert Ballard Quotes

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• If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.
• Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.
• Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.
• NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
• Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
• The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now…
• My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars…
• I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
• I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
• I can't travel without Sudoku.
• I love all of the Earth.
• I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
• I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
• I prefer sayings over jokes.
• I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.
• It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
• So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
• There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
• What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
• You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

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