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" I can't travel without Sudoku. "
Robert Ballard
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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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" 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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" There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. "
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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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New England
" 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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Law
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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 think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women! "
Robert Ballard
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Important
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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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Know
" I love all of the Earth. "
Robert Ballard
I Love
Earth
Love
" I prefer sayings over jokes. "
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Jokes
Sayings
Over
" You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona. "
Robert Ballard
You
Go
Gettysburg
" Don't confuse facts with reality. "
Robert Ballard
Confuse
Reality
Facts
" What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. "
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" I am a geologist. "
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I Am
Am
" I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet. "
Robert Ballard
I Believe
Believe
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" You don't let a historic site rot. "
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You
Historic
Rot
" It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea. "
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Huge
Surprise
Sea
" 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
Country
Own
Better
" I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality. "
Robert Ballard
Mean
Technology
Amoral
" Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend. "
Robert Ballard
Friend
Ocean
Best
" Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history. "
Robert Ballard
Talking
Living
History
" 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
Explore
NASA
Year
" Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls. "
Robert Ballard
Souls
Way
Bless
" I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora. "
Robert Ballard
Earth
Would
Say
" 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
Speed
Spirit
Pain
" 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
Earth
Wrong
Student
" 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
Amazing
Time
Now
" The Titanic will protect itself. "
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Protect
Will
Titanic
" There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea. "
Robert Ballard
Sea
Now
Possible
" Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. "
Robert Ballard
Follow
Own
Parents