Able Quote by Rusty Schweickart

By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility…

— Rusty Schweickart

We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

— Rusty Schweickart

Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Asteroids are often seen as a threat, but they are also an opportunity. The use of space resources holds a large potential for future…

— Etienne Schneider

People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as…

— Kesha Rogers

If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're living in…

— Rusty Schweickart

Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing…

— Jared Diamond

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

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

— Peter Diamandis

We're living in the anthropocene age and now human beings will be the shapers of our future, that totally control the overall functions of…

— Vandana Shiva