Harvard Scientist Says Space Exploration Uplifts and Gives Meaning to Humans’ Lives

In an interview with The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech, on Fox News’s “The Ben Domenech podcast,” Harvard professor Avi Loeb, a renowned theoretical physicist, former chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, and author of the book “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,” argued that scientific institutions should be taking risks and funding risky research, rather than just promising what they can deliver. “These are the most boring projects,” he said. “If you can tell in advance what you can discover, then it’s not a major advance.” The title of the podcast is “Avi Loeb and the Importance of Inquiry,” in which he discusses an array of subjects. https://radio.foxnews.com/2021/05/24/avi-loeb-the-importance-of-inquiry/.