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 More Quotes by Robert Ballard More Quotes From Robert Ballard Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls. Robert Ballard ocean sea forever I love all of the Earth. Robert Ballard earth 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. Robert Ballard ocean sea years 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. Robert Ballard law sea museums I can't travel without Sudoku. Robert Ballard i-can We realized we were dancing on someones grave, and we were embarrassed, the mood, it was like someone took a wall switch and went click. Robert Ballard tech People had taken 60 days and not found it. I did it in eight. Robert Ballard tech We knew where the subs were, what they wanted me to do was go back and not have the Russians follow me, because we were interested in the nuclear weapons that were on the Scorpion and also what the nuclear reactors( were) doing to the environment. Robert Ballard top-news They did not want the world to know that, so I had to have a cover story. Robert Ballard top-news When we found the Titanic, we naturally were very excited, because it was a tough job. We got it, scoring the winning goal at the buzzer. Robert Ballard top-news 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. Robert Ballard answer student earth science Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. Robert Ballard teachers parents own passion I am a geologist. Robert Ballard am i-am geologist