We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.

We're going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.