You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.