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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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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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NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
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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 believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
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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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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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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 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 think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
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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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You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
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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.
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I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
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I prefer sayings over jokes.
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Don't confuse facts with reality.
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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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I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
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Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.
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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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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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