The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as th…

- Ben Bova

In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fan…

- Ben Bova

Red tape has killed more people than bullets.

- Ben Bova

I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich enough in resources to…

- Ben Bova

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

- Ben Bova

Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all …

- Ben Bova

Omni is not a science magazine. It is a magazine about the future...Omni was sui generis. Although there were plenty of science magazines over the ye…

- Ben Bova

A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race i…

- Ben Bova

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of …

- Ben Bova