Quotes by Robert Ballard

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

— Robert Ballard

Education

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom

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

Friendship

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

— Robert Ballard

Life

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

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom

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

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom

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

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Success

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

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom

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

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom

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

Life

Don't confuse facts with reality.

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom

The Titanic will protect itself.

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Education

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

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom

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

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom

I can't travel without Sudoku.

— Robert Ballard

Wisdom