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Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

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

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You don't let a historic site rot.

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

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The Titanic will protect itself.

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Don't confuse facts with reality.

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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.

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I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

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Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 30th, 1942

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