Words matter. These are the best Robert Ballard Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
I believe in just enriching the economy. And we’re leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
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.
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook’s time than now. It’s amazing.
I prefer sayings over jokes.
You don’t let a historic site rot.
I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
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.
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.
So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It’s staggering.
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.
I love all of the Earth.
You don’t go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don’t take belt buckles off the Arizona.
I can’t travel without Sudoku.
It’s not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.
Don’t confuse facts with reality.
I am a geologist.
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.
Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
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.
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.
There’s a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
