27 Quotes by Ben Bova

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life . . . they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing . . . and nobody can tell you different.

My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

We have, I think, come through the big danger of a vast and sudden exchange of nuclear weapons, ... And I think the lesson we've learned is, if you have nuclear weapons, you probably don't dare use them.

Fortunately, they didn't find anything that contradicted what I had already written.

John Kennedy said, 'We are a great and powerful people' and we've been doing great and wonderful things. And we'll continue to do so,

I write historical novels that haven't happened yet,