Ben Bova famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Understanding #Evidence #Working It
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.
-- Ben Bova

#Believe #Writing #Add
Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
-- Ben Bova

#Believe #Writing #Stories
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation.
-- Ben Bova

#Military #Civilization #Space
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.
-- Ben Bova

#Military #Moon #Race
Omni is not a science magazine. It is a magazine about the future...Omni was sui generis. Although there were plenty of science magazines over the years...Omni was the first magazine to slant all its pieces toward the future. It was fun to read and gorgeous to look at.
-- Ben Bova

#Fun #Years #Looks
Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.
-- Ben Bova

#Numbers #Poor #Increase
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.
-- Ben Bova

#Sex #Teenager #People
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.
-- Ben Bova

#Oil #Israel #Long
Red tape has killed more people than bullets...
-- Ben Bova

#People #Tape #Bullets
The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.
-- Ben Bova

#Strong #Stars #Sea
I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich enough in resources to be economically useful to Earth. In the final analysis, everything we do in space, if it does not help the people of Earth, all the people, it's not going to happen.
-- Ben Bova

#Moon #Thinking #Two

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