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You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
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
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Wichita
Kansas
Robert Duane Ballard
Robert D. Ballard
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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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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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Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
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The greatest discoveries all start with the question Why?
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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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I prefer sayings over jokes.
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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.
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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 DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.
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NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
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I can't travel without Sudoku.
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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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I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
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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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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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Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.
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I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
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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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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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