Robert Ballard Quotations

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.

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

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

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

Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.

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

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

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

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.

The Titanic will protect itself.