Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

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
Robert Zubrin

The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

Putin and many of his gang may have once been Communists, but they are not that today. Rather, they have embraced a new totalitarian political ideology known as 'Eurasianism.'

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

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
Robert Zubrin

The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

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
Robert Zubrin

Global warming would increase the rate of evaporation from the oceans. This would increase rainfall worldwide. In addition, global warming would lengthen the growing season, thereby increasing still further the bounty of both agriculture and nature.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

Carbon is the stuff of life, and it's the stuff of everything used by human society. All of our materials are made of carbon or of substances, such as steel or glass, which are produced through the utilization of carbon.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

Instead of forcing everyone to buy health insurance, Congress should pass a law protecting the uninsured from being charged more than the insurance companies are for a given service.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

Western environmentalists might value their independence, but their organizations are largely donor driven, and if he wanted to, Putin could have a lot to donate.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

You can't 'control' a Mars mission from Earth. The Mars mission is going to have to be controlled by the people on Mars... There is just too much involved that is out of sight of Earth.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

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
Robert Zubrin

In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil.