Ben Bova Quotes

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

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  Understanding, Evidence, Working It

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• En ciencia hay una máxima: no añadas un experimento a otro experimento. No compliques las cosas innecesariamente. Al escribir ficción, cuanto más fantástica sea la historia, más sencilla debe ser la prosa. No pidas a tus lectores que admiren tus palabras cuando lo que quieres es que se crean tu historia.

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  Believe, Writing, Add

  Ben Bova (1998). “Twice Seven: Stories”, Eos

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• Ha comenzado una nueva carrera espacial, y la mayoría de los estadounidenses ni siquiera son conscientes de ello. Esta carrera no tiene que ver con el prestigio político o el poder militar. Esta nueva carrera implica a toda la especie humana en una contienda contra el tiempo. Todos los habitantes de la Tierra están en una carrera desesperada contra el desastre... Para salvar la Tierra debemos mirar más allá, al espacio interplanetario. Ante el colapso de la civilización y el fin del mundo tal y como lo conocemos, debemos comprender que nuestro planeta no existe aislado.

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  Military, Civilization, Space

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• Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

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  Creer, Escribir, Historias

  Ben Bova (1998). “Twice Seven: Stories”, Eos

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• 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 the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

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  Suicide, Independent, America

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• 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 your life . . . they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing . . . and nobody can tell you different.

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  Being Yourself, Law, Space

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• Red tape has killed more people than bullets.

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  People, Tape, Bullets

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• Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

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  Numbers, Poor, Increase

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• My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.

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  Sex, Teenager, People

  "Men on Mars, Women on Venus". Interview with Jay McDonald, Bookpage, June 1999.

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• 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 be economically useful to Earth. In the final analysis, everything we do in space, if it does not help the people of Earth, all the people, it's not going to happen.

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  Moon, Thinking, Two

  "Men on Mars, Women on Venus" by Jay McDonald, Bookpage, June 1999.

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• As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.

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  Israel, Oil, Long

  Ben Bova (2006). “Powersat”, p.141, Macmillan

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• 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 the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.

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  Strong, Stars, Sea

  Ben Bova (2008). “Mars Life”, p.313, Macmillan

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• Ha comenzado una nueva carrera espacial, y la mayoría de los estadounidenses ni siquiera son conscientes de ello. No se trata de prestigio político ni de poder militar. Esta nueva carrera implica a toda la especie humana en una lucha contra el tiempo.

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  Military, Moon, Space

  Ben Bova (1983). “The High Road”, Pocket

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• 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 years...Omni was the first magazine to slant all its pieces toward the future. It was fun to read and gorgeous to look at.

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  Fun, Years, Looks

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