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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. "
Robert Ballard
Explore
NASA
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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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" 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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" There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea. "
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" You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona. "
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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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" 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 am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter. "
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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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" 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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" I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora. "
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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
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Believe
Economy
" The Titanic will protect itself. "
Robert Ballard
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Will
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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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" What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. "
Robert Ballard
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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. "
Robert Ballard
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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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Live
Sea
Understanding
" I can't travel without Sudoku. "
Robert Ballard
Travel
Without
" Don't confuse facts with reality. "
Robert Ballard
Confuse
Reality
Facts
" There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. "
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Active
Land
" 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. "
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Earth
Wrong
Student
" You don't let a historic site rot. "
Robert Ballard
You
Historic
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" Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. "
Robert Ballard
Follow
Own
Parents
" I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering. "
Robert Ballard
Gas
Sea
Resources
" So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet. "
Robert Ballard
Think
You
Know
" 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
Half
Up
New England
" 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. "
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Spirit
Pain
" I am a geologist. "
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" I love all of the Earth. "
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Earth
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" I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality. "
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" I prefer sayings over jokes. "
Robert Ballard
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Sayings
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