American - Scientist | 1952 -
People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.
Robert Zubrin
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Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.
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The United States has the largest and best navy in the world.
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The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is almost completely ineffective, as many other countries, including the European Union, do not honor it.
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Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world.
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Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources.
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Trillions of dollars in out-of-control entitlement spending cannot be remedied by cuts in NASA, or even in the entire discretionary budget, defense included. Rather, the financial bleeding needs to be staunched where the hole is and nowhere else.
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The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.
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The 20th century saw three great-power confrontations. Two of them turned into total war. We lucked out on the third. Do we really want to roll those dice again?
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By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected.
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The Earth is not endangered by humanity. But humanity is being seriously threatened by those who follow the guides of the WWF.
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In addition to virtually banning methanol outright, the EPA has created regulations to prevent cars from being modified by small businesses to optimize their performance, including through the use of methanol.
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