Quotes by Robert Ballard

• I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
• 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.
• 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.
• Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
• There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
• 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.
• The Titanic will protect itself.
• Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
• Don't confuse facts with reality.
• It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.