I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a…

- James Van Allen

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

- James Van Allen

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

- James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural p…

- James Van Allen

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

- James Van Allen

In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight…

- James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without …

- James Van Allen

A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

- James Van Allen

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

- James Van Allen