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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. "
Moon
Mountain
Golf
" Don't confuse facts with reality. "
Confuse
Reality
Facts
" 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. "
Country
Own
Better
" Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. "
Follow
Own
Parents
" Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls. "
Souls
Way
Bless
" I am a geologist. "
Geologist
I Am
Am
" I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter. "
Underwater
Treasure
I Am
" 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. "
Live
Sea
Understanding
" I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet. "
I Believe
Believe
Economy
" I can't travel without Sudoku. "
Travel
Without
" 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. "
Explore
NASA
Year
" I love all of the Earth. "
I Love
Earth
Love
" 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. "
Earth
Wrong
Student
" I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality. "
Mean
Technology
Amoral
" I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering. "
Gas
Sea
Resources
" I prefer sayings over jokes. "
Jokes
Sayings
Over
" I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women! "
Think
Important
People
" It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. "
Quiet
Sea
Peaceful
" It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea. "
Huge
Surprise
Sea
" I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora. "
Earth
Would
Say
" Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing. "
Amazing
Time
Now
" 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. "
Half
Up
New England
" So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet. "
Think
You
Know
" 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. "
Speed
Spirit
Pain
" There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. "
Than
Active
Land
" There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea. "
Sea
Now
Possible
" 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. "
Now
Law
History
" The Titanic will protect itself. "
Protect
Will
Titanic
" Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend. "
Friend
Ocean
Best
" What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. "
Exploration
Purpose
Royal
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