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

- Burt Rutan

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to …

- Burt Rutan

Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the …

- Burt Rutan

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…

- Burt Rutan

The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000 people by 2024. …

- Burt Rutan

NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we alr…

- Burt Rutan

I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different …

- Burt Rutan

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

- Burt Rutan

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all …

- Burt Rutan