Robert Ballard Quotes

• Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’ – yours.

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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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• 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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  Tags in Planet, Mountain, Moon

• Don’t confuse facts with reality.

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  Tags in Facts, Reality, Confuse

• 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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  Tags in Oceans, Heavens, Annual, Explore, Compare

• I believe in just enriching the economy. And we’re leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

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  Tags in Planet, Table, Leaving

• Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

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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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  Tags in Exploration, Unexplored, Southern, Ships

• 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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  Tags in Peaceful, Tragedies, Sea, Quiet

• 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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  Tags in Fifty, The Sea, Mars, Beneath, Sea

• The Titanic will protect itself.

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• There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

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• 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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Robert Ballard (33)

Birth:	30th June, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Naval Officer

About

Robert Duane Ballard is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks.

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