Ability Quote by Wilson Greatbatch

Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space…

— Wilson Greatbatch

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.

— Bill Gates

For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion is essentially…

— Franklin Chang Diaz

Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy is so…

— P. E. Cleator

At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster…

— Isaac Asimov

Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable…

— Donald A. Wollheim

We need nuclear energy now, and we will need it in the future.

— Conor Lamb

Rockets have remained fundamentally unchanged, except for a few exceptions for the last almost 50 years. So, for there to be a fundamental shift…

— Leroy Chiao

I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars.…

— Taylor Wilson

We should explore new ways to drive down the cost of space travel. instead of costly booster rockets, maybe we should think of laser/microwave…

— Michio Kaku

Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were possible to…

— Steven Weinberg

How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.

— L. Ron Hubbard