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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.

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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I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
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The greatest discoveries all start with the question Why?
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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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You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.
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