Robert Ballard Quotes

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
Robert Ballard

Greatest, Place, Sea

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
Robert Ballard

Women, Important, Human

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.
Robert Ballard

Science, Give, Learned

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

Time, Amazing, Down

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
Robert Ballard

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.
Robert Ballard

Single, Before, After

Don't confuse facts with reality.
Robert Ballard

Reality, Facts, Confuse

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.
Robert Ballard

Legal, Country, Whatever

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.
Robert Ballard

Parents, Passion, Follow

Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
Robert Ballard

God, May, Forever

I am a geologist.
Robert Ballard

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
Robert Ballard

Treasure, Explorer, Hunter

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 percent of what is going on.
Robert Ballard

Live, Sea, Means

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
Robert Ballard

Leaving, Economy, Percent

I can't travel without Sudoku.
Robert Ballard

I love all of the Earth.
Robert Ballard

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
Robert Ballard

Technology, Mean, Morality

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
Robert Ballard

Amazing, Mean, Sea

I prefer sayings over jokes.
Robert Ballard

Jokes, Sayings, Prefer

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.
Robert Ballard

Place, Earth, Favorite

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

Year, Budget, Explore

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Robert Ballard

Black, Sea, Surprise

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.
Robert Ballard

Family, After, Half

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
Robert Ballard

Age, Beginning, Planet

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.
Robert Ballard

Pain, Light, Body

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 30, 1942

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