When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
One of the weird things about modern physics is that we do find there are apparently these other dimensions that we don't… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It's an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
It is said that Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Western civilization, remarked, 'I think it would be a good idea.' That's how… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it is in… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive?… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I'd been politically active ever since my parents wheeled me in a stroller in a 'ban the bomb' march in Boston in 1963. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for granted. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are faced with… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Time and time again, our species has escaped existential threats by reinventing ourselves, finding new skills not coded in our genes to survive new… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
