"It is very unlikely that we would drive to extinction any native Martian microorganisms in the process of extending t…"

"We do not need a lunar-orbiting station to go to the Moon. We do not need such a station to go to Mars. We do not nee…"

"Musk can probably build a giant AI data centre on the Moon. But if it can’t compete with much cheaper alternatives on…"

"As our race has advanced in civilization, owing its progress to a more and more rigid division of labor, with the att…"

"The development of any department of science is closely connected with its power of interesting men."

"We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life that stops when physical maturity is reached. If growt…"

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is man's inability to understand the exponential function."

"Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term …"

"In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoret…"

"I remember having listened to Fermi’s discussions on hydrodynamics with von Neumann. (These took the strange form of …"