Quotes from Robert Ballard

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

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.

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

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.

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.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

I can't travel without Sudoku.

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

From "The Book That Changed My Life": -"But your journey is never over until you return from it to share with society what you have learned." ~ Robert Ballard -"We never anticipate being changed by what we read. Such an experience cannot be planned for." ~ Brother Christopher

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

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.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Don't confuse facts with reality.