I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.
By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it.
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
By 2030, up to 10 percent of the world's gross domestic product could be linked to space in some way.
As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
Language... Has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.