Robert Ballard Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.”

“There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.”

“I prefer sayings over jokes.”

“The Titanic will protect itself.”

“Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.”

“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.”

“Don't confuse facts with reality.”

“I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.”

“I can't travel without Sudoku.”

“I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.”