Occupation: Physician Birth: May 20, 1961
Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can t….
I'm extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have fallen on the ….
If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars ….
Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into sp….
Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonp….
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success..
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways..
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky..
Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly..
I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this..
I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it..
When faced without a challenge, make one.
If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need res….
One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy..
I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we kn….
We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies..
I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop..
We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy..
You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commerc….
I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space..
You either disrupt your own company or someone else will..