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The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.
Robert Ballard
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Robert Ballard
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 30
Academic
Film Director
Geologist
Naval Officer
Non-Fiction Writer
Oceanographer
Professor
Wichita
Kansas
Robert Duane Ballard
Robert D. Ballard
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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.
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Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.
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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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Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
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The greatest discoveries all start with the question Why?
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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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So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
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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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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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Don't confuse facts with reality.
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You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.
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I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
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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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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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You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
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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 prefer sayings over jokes.
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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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I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.
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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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