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I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
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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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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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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Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
Robert Ballard
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 don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
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Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
Robert Ballard
Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.
Robert Ballard
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 prefer sayings over jokes.
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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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The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.
Robert Ballard
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
Robert Ballard
I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
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So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
Robert Ballard
I can't travel without Sudoku.
Robert Ballard
You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.
Robert Ballard
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
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.
Robert Ballard
I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.
Robert 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.
Robert Ballard
