Become Quote by Peter Diamandis

Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had ever been…

— Nick Bostrom

Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I…

— Peter Diamandis

My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And as a…

— Buzz Aldrin

I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I…

— David Grinspoon

It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.

— David Grinspoon

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human…

— Michael J. Massimino

In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that…

— Paul Davies

I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life.

— John M. Grunsfeld

I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was on television,…

— Alastair Reynolds

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go…

— John L. Phillips

“For all the tantalizing and provocative character of the Viking results, I know a hundred places on Mars which are far more interesting than…

— Carl Sagan