27 Quotes by Ben Bova

We're living in a tremendous era of exploration,

This can happen, ... The moon is going to be the industrial center of all the things we do in space. It truly is a frontier. There is incredible wealth out there.

If you know what's happening in the research labs, it isn't all that great a trick to predict what's coming,

Lolling around libraries paging through books that haven’t been checked out since 1975 is one of my principal joys as a writer.

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

In science there is a dictum: don’t add an experiment to an experiment. Don’t make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don’t ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

We try to teach our students how to think... how to use their brains and imagination. Individual subjects can always be learned by a man who knows how to learn. We teach them to think, and the other subjects arise by themselves...

As long as we’re tied to Middle Eastern oil we’re tied to Middle Eastern politics. We’re hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.

A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.