Top 33 Quotes by Robert Ballard

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

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.

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

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

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

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

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

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.

The Titanic will protect itself.

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