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.
Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
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 penetrating it.
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.
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.
Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
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.
NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
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.
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
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.
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?
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
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.
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.
I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
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.
If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
