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Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.


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Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.



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I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of the experts, believe that the goal is impossible.



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A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.



NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.



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Everything looks nonsensical before it works.



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I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.



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Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.





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