Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
– Robert Ballard
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
I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
– Robert Ballard
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
– Robert Ballard
I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
– Robert Ballard
I can't travel without Sudoku.
– Robert Ballard
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.