Governing Quote by Robert Ballard

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

— Robert Ballard

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…

— Robert Ballard

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time,…

— Sylvia Earle

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

— Francis Bacon

“We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We…

— Orhan Pamuk

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must…

— Aldo Leopold

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

— David Rockefeller

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

— Anonymous

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

— Jill Lepore

There's less mystery in the sea than there is in fresh water. If you look at television there's lots of documentaries on whales, on…

— Jeremy Wade

“Museums hold collections in trust for future generations. It is our responsibility to see that these objects—representing the cultural heritage of more than 8,000…

— Holly Witchey

The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious,…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr