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Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin
American Scientist
Born: 1952
Could Government Needs People Will World
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming
In the 1960s, reaching for the moon meant just that. It was a metaphor for attempting the impossible, and we attempted it, and we did it. And it inspired millions of people in every way. The number of science graduates in this country doubled in the 1960s at every level - high school, college, Ph.D. Robert Zubrin
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By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected. Robert Zubrin
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The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all. Robert Zubrin
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The federal government was created to defend the United States, not to wage war upon it. Robert Zubrin
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Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful. Robert Zubrin
World Nothing Plentiful More Could Cheap Make Than Poor Fuels Help Fossil Fossil Fuels
In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don't need a gun - and juries would be well advised to distrust the case of those parties who choose to use weapons to silence adversarial witnesses. Robert Zubrin
Silence You Science Gun Side Those Would Would-Be Weapons Distrust Case Facts Adversarial Parties Well Advised Witnesses Courtroom Juries Use Your Choose Who Need
The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be. Robert Zubrin
Energy More Costs Economic Economic Activity Energy Costs Less Activity
What Russia really needs is not gay rights but human rights, and the rule of law. Robert Zubrin
Needs Gay Rights Law Human Rights Gay Rights Rule Rule Of Law Russia Human Really
As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply. Robert Zubrin
War Strength Book World Victory Energy Ran Airplane Some Allies Supply Advantage Tanks Ships American Controlled Oil Oil Production Explain Decisive Length Production World War World War II
From 1859 to 1971, the U.S. oil industry grew virtually continuously, in the process serving mightily to drive our economy and win our wars. But that growth was stopped dead in 1971 and sent into decline thereafter, as the advent of the EPA and the accompanying National Environmental Policy Act made it increasingly difficult to drill. Robert Zubrin
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The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is almost completely ineffective, as many other countries, including the European Union, do not honor it. Robert Zubrin
Honor Other Other Countries Embargo Almost Countries Cuba Ineffective Trade Union European Many European Union Including
People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done. Robert Zubrin
People Fate Space Own Enough Our Some Perhaps Make Get Done Space Exploration Us Exploration Explorers Actually Fates
Can we achieve 140 mpg fuel economy? You bet. Just get the bureaucrats out of the way, and Yankee ingenuity will do the rest. Robert Zubrin
You Achieve Will Rest Way Out Bet Economy Yankee Get Bureaucrats Just Fuel Fuel Economy Ingenuity
Would offering the Mars Prize damage NASA? I don't think so. Robert Zubrin
Think Would Mars NASA Offering Prize Damage
The EPA could act to open the transportation-fuel market to vigorous competition from natural gas as well as coal, biomass, and trash, by legalizing methanol. This would force oil prices down, expand the economy, and create millions of jobs. Robert Zubrin
Natural Competition Down Market Jobs Would Could Prices Open Economy Well Force Expand Oil Oil Prices Natural Gas EPA Create Act Coal Vigorous Trash Gas Millions
The problem with Russia is not that it has laws restricting promotion of the gay lifestyle. The problem with Russia is that it has no laws that effectively constrain the strong or protect the weak. Robert Zubrin
Gay Problem Strong Weak Promotion Russia Constrain Restricting Laws Lifestyle Protect Effectively The Problem With
I don't think we should have to do a Mars mission on the basis of hysteria. I think we should do a Mars mission on the basis of a deliberate judgment that what we want to do is open up a new planet for humanity... that we are continuing to be a nation of pioneers. Robert Zubrin
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We have never been in danger of running out of resources, but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained. Robert Zubrin
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I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the 'age of limits.' Robert Zubrin
Great Age Space College Country Become Entered Had Part Over Limits Up Mode Effort Graduated Moved Space Exploration Wanted Grew Apollo Exploration Pessimistic Program
Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery. Robert Zubrin
Science Collection Facts Discovery Process
The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC limit the amount of liquid fuel available. Robert Zubrin
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In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.' Robert Zubrin
Time Engineer Dinner Minority Responsible Mars Gingrich Direct Martin Inventing Had Invited New House August Been Denver Senior Where Whip Plan Newt Newt Gingrich Working
When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy. Robert Zubrin
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The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers. Robert Zubrin
People Space Nation Worthy Truly Pioneers American Want Space Program American People Deserve Program
If the auto companies were free agents, they would act to break the fuel monopoly that is so damaging to their own interests and those of their customers. But they are not, and so they won't. Robert Zubrin
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In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil. Robert Zubrin
Game Business World Our Ran Advantage American Oil Petroleum
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