Robert Ballard Professions : ProfessorBorn : June 30, 1942 Browse All Authors Quotes From Robert Ballard The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?" Robert Ballard explorationeducationaldiscovery 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 oceanseamuseums Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the ocean? Robert Ballard oceandoeyears Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it? Robert Ballard live-your-lifedoorsquiet You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live. Robert Ballard givinginspirepeople Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up. Robert Ballard giving-uphard-workdream 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. Robert Ballard motivationinspirationbook The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined. Robert Ballard seamuseumsworld 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 rightscountrylying Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet. Robert Ballard mountain-rangesmoongolf It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Robert Ballard sealovepeace Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas. Robert Ballard united-statesoceanamerica 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 adultstechnologykids Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend. Robert Ballard oceanfriendshipkids My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand! Robert Ballard oceanmoonmoving You don't let a historic site rot. Robert Ballard sitehistoric NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years. Robert Ballard oceanspaceyears The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunlight - previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life - has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical process based on geothermal heat, then life could exist under similar conditions on planets far removed from the nurturing light of our parent star, the Sun. Robert Ballard oceanstarslife I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter. Robert Ballard underwaterhunterstreasure 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. Robert Ballard painlightmoving Similar Authors Bryan Stevenson professor Bruce Greenwald professor Bruce Ames professor Brian Wansink professor Brian Schmidt professor Brian Martin professorAll Authors
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