Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.

- Robert Ballard

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

- Robert Ballard

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

- Robert Ballard

Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.

- Robert Ballard

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

- Robert Ballard

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

- Robert Ballard

Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the o…

- Robert Ballard

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

- Robert Ballard

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

- Robert Ballard