American - Businessman | January 21, 1953 - October 15, 2018
In the university library my father helped lead, as the Associate Director of Libraries from '60 to '82, I spent hours and hours as a kid devouring piles of books so I could follow the latest advances in science.
Paul Allen
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I was only in second grade when the Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. The night of his launch - April 12, 1961 - I went out onto the front porch and stared up at the stars, trying to see his capsule passing overhead. Like millions of others, I was enthralled by the idea of space exploration and have been ever since.
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My quest to expand access to space began more than a decade ago, when I teamed up with Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites to build SpaceShipOne. This innovative air-launched vehicle was the world's first private spacecraft to carry an astronaut into sub-orbital space.
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As always, space remains an unforgiving frontier, and the skies overhead will surely present obstacles and setbacks that must be overcome. But hard challenges demand fresh approaches, and I'm optimistic that Stratolaunch will yield transformative benefits - not only for scientists and space entrepreneurs, but for all of us.
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Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.
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We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.
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I've lived in Boston.
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To me, it's the kind of interesting question the human race should be investing in. Is there intelligent life out there? Are there other beings out there?
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I really do care about the health of the players. That's one of the tough things about the NFL - it's so physically tough on the players.
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I'm trying to do some things with my brain institute to understand more about the impact of concussion on brain tissue, because we have some scientists over there who are really good at looking at brain tissue and the effects of things on brain tissue.
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I think few people in their lifetime have the chance to be involved in something like the creation of Microsoft - that's always going to be something I'm known for.
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I'm not somebody that just has one or two things in life that are laserlike focused.
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