The body is sort of a pain. ...

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.
 Robert Ballard

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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
Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.
 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
My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!
 Robert Ballard
I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
 Robert Ballard