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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

Believe, Economy, Planet, Enriching

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

- Robert Ballard

Rest, Quiet, Tragedies, Remains

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

- Robert Ballard

Society, Exploration, Geographical

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.

- Robert Ballard

History, Law, More, No Law

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, Year, Compare, Oceans

The Titanic will protect itself.

- Robert Ballard

Will, Protect, Itself, Titanic

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

Student, Had, Continental, Ridicule

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

San Diego, Next, San, Diego

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

Exploration, More, Southern, Ships

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

- Robert Ballard

I Am, Treasure, Underwater, Explorer

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

Big, Floods, North, Connecticut

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

- Robert Ballard

More, Beneath, Than, Orders

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

Deep, Made, Very, Precise

I prefer sayings over jokes.

- Robert Ballard

Over, Sayings, Prefer, Jokes

You don't let a historic site rot.

- Robert Ballard

You, Historic, Site, Rot

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

- Robert Ballard

Own, Teachers, Your, Yours

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

- Robert Ballard

Other, Beneath, Amount, Staggering

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

- Robert Ballard

Souls, May, Remain, God Bless

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

New, England, Half, Virginia

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

Light, Pain, Move, Bathroom

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

- Robert Ballard

Think, The Most Important, Human Race

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

Before, Largest, Almost, Quarter

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

- Robert Ballard

Think, Exploration, I Think, Our Planet

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, Maps, Beneath, Jurisdiction

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

- Robert Ballard

Arizona, Belt, Take, Gettysburg

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

- Robert Ballard

Technology, Mean, Morality, Amoral

Don't confuse facts with reality.

- Robert Ballard

Reality, Facts, Confuse

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

- Robert Ballard

Earth, Say, Would, Favorite

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

- Robert Ballard

Surprise, Black, Bottom, Sea

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.

- Robert Ballard

Which, Dedicated, Means, Sea

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