72 Quotes by Robert Ballard

No scientist will sit on (a ship) for that long, reading a book and eating popcorn for the whole time, no way.

This is an unusual and dangerous situation. We really want to stress that to people. It's not going to take much to bring a wall of water sweeping down one of those mountains.

They found a fragment, big deal. Am I surprised? No. When you go down there, there's stuff all over the place. It hit an iceberg and it sank. Get over it.

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.

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?

The Titanic will protect itself.

Don't confuse facts with reality.