Robert Ballard Quotes
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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.
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Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
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I can't travel without Sudoku.
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The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.
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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 and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!
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NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
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I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
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The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.
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It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
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You don't let a historic site rot.
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Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.
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There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
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Don't confuse facts with reality.
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Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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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 moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.
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The Titanic will protect itself.
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You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.
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What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
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I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
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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.
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I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.
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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 a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.
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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, because it helps you then develop skills. But at some point in your career, generally I think when you are in your teens, you look in a mirror and you have to say, despite all the bumps and warts, "I like that person I'm looking at, and let's just do our best."
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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.
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My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.
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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.
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Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the ocean?
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I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
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The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"
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