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

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

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.

I love all of the Earth.

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?

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

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.