Robert Ballard Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"”
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“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.”
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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 DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.”
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“Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.”
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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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“Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?”
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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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“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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“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 keepers.”
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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 think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!”
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“Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.”
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“There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.”
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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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“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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“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 control of my vehicle system.”
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“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 independent of sunlight-previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life-has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical process based on geothermal heat, then life could exist under similar conditions on planets far removed from the nurturing light of our parent star, the Sun.”
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“I can't travel without Sudoku.”
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“I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.”
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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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“I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.”
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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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“So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.”
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“I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.”
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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.”
-- Robert Ballard
