"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
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"I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!"
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"I can't travel without Sudoku."
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"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."
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"I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering."
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"Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing."
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
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"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."
-J. G. Ballard
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