We have to learn to become a new kind of entity on this world that has the maturity and the awareness to handle being a global species with the power to change our planet and use that power in a way that is conducive to the kind of global society we want to have. David Grinspoon Read Quote
We can look out on an alien landscape that no one has seen before and find it beautiful. David Grinspoon Read Quote
I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I learned that space exploration was real. I wanted to get involved in that. I knew I wanted to be a scientist. David Grinspoon Read Quote
Astrobiology is a great point of contact for science outreach. The public is naturally interested in extra-terrestrial life. Astrobiology provides an accessible point of access that leads to deeper questions. David Grinspoon Read Quote
I intend to apply the perspective of astrobiology, which is a deep-time way of looking at life on Earth, towards the question of the Anthropocene. What does the human phenomenon on Earth look like viewed from an interplanetary perspective? David Grinspoon Read Quote
There’s no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades. David Grinspoon Read Quote
I think chemists always think they know more than they know, because nature has a lot of possible pathways it can try. David Grinspoon Read Quote
There is a history of thinking about space science from an environmental ethics perspective. And part of what I want to do is turn that back and use that experience to see if it reflects how we think about the Earth. David Grinspoon Read Quote
There’s eco-pragmatism, where you recognize, ‘Yeah, we live on a planet that’s permanently altered by humanity, and rather than seek to return to or preserve pure wilderness, we recognize that’s an illusion, and we proceed under the new knowledge that we live, in fact, in a human-dominated planet.’ David Grinspoon Read Quote
