Robert Ballard Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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

  Ocean, Museums, Sea

• 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.

  Robert Ballard

  Motivation, Book, Inspiration

• The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunlight - previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life - has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical process based on geothermal heat, then life could exist under similar conditions on planets far removed from the nurturing light of our parent star, the Sun.

  Robert Ballard

  Life, Stars, Ocean

  "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe". Book by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, 2003.

• I love all of the Earth.

  Robert Ballard

  Earth

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

  Robert Ballard

  Favorite Places, Earth, Bora Bora

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