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.

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

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.

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

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

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

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 ocean?