Alien invasion Quote by David Grinspoon

I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.

— David Grinspoon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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