Basic Research Is What I Am Doing

Nature Does Not Know Extinction; All It Knows Is Transformation. ... Everything Science Has Taught Me-and Continues To Teach Me-strengthens My Belief In The Continuity Of Our Spiritual Existence After Death. Nothing Disappears Without A Trace.

Conquering The Universe One Has To Solve Two Problems: Gravity And Red Tape. We Could Have Mastered Gravity.

I Only Hope That We Shall Not Wait To Adopt The Program Until After Our Astronomers Have Reported A New And Unsuspected Asteroid Moving Across Their Fields Of Vision With Menacing Speed. At That Point It Will Be Too Late!

The Greatest Gain From Space Travel Consists In The Extension Of Our Knowledge. In A Hundred Years This Newly Won Knowledge Will Pay Huge And Unexpected Dividends.

In 1492 Columbus Knew Less About The Far Atlantic Than We Do About The Heavens, Yet He Chose Not To Sail With A Flotilla Of Less Than Three Ships. . . . So It Is With Interplanetary Exploration: It Must Be Done On The Grand Scale.