CSF and its members believe strongly in the exploration of space of all kinds, including commercial purposes.

I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made.

We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.

New Horizons isn't just visiting Pluto; it's visiting this entire region. Whatever it finds, this will be a signal moment for planetary exploration - the capstone to our first reconnaissance of the planets of our solar system.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.