I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women! – Robert Ballard
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cooks time than now. Its amazing. – Robert Ballard
Im 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 Kays geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. – 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. – Robert Ballard