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.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

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

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

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