“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“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
Robert Ballard on exploring the oceans
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“I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don’t have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.”
— Robert Ballard
Robert Ballard on exploring the oceans
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