Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.

Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation

I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

I have a really, really great girl in my life right now.

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

High level womanness occurs and is freed when the filters and the boundaries in your womanness are no longer of use to you. As a woman you then move as your own Being.