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With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring back extinct…

— Annalee Newitz

This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never write again.…

— James Nicoll

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and…

— Fritz Sauckel

Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall. And while…

— Seth Shostak

We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism…

— Daniel Goldin

Back in the day, I've heard, particularly with the near-Earth asteroids, there were some asteroid hunters that knew the names of every one.

— Carrie Nugent

Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very…

— Rusty Schweickart

I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving…

— Wernher von Braun

Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist,…

— Slavoj Žižek

We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this Malala one…

— Carrie Nugent

Most of the solar system resides beyond the orbits of the asteroids. There is more to learn there about general planetary processes than on…

— Carolyn Porco

We could not wipe ourselves out with a nuclear war. I do not want so sound too positive. It would be a catastrophe, but…

— Rusty Schweickart

There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering out all…

— Alastair Reynolds

But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson