Top 8 James Van Allen Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I’m a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.”

— James Van Allen

2. “I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.”

— James Van Allen

3. “Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.”

— James Van Allen

4. “I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, ‘Let’s terminate human spaceflight.’”

— James Van Allen

5. “A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He’s not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.”

— James Van Allen

6. “I’m one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.”

— James Van Allen

7. “Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.”

— James Van Allen

8. “These days, it’s really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.”

— James Van Allen

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