About Quotes by Seth Shostak

17 About quotes by Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak’s quotes explore the wonder of the cosmos and the human drive to seek out life beyond Earth. His words balance scientific curiosity with philosophical wonder, inviting readers to consider our place in the vast universe.

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Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago.…

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Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to…

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Of course, Sol is a big ball of hot gas, but one that - thanks to its endlessly boiling innards - shakes…

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NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one…

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In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions…

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Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we…

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Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on…

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About the only things that are unique to Earth are our biota and our culture. If aliens ever come here, they'd most…

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It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try…

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What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from…

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If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in…

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I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach…

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We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see…

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Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and…

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Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to…

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You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email.…

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In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's 'habitable zone' - a theoretical region extending from Venus to…

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Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research…

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Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered…

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As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been…

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Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400…

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Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite…

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In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the days before…

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Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to know.

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If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in about an…

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While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm a victim…

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I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to…

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About the only things that are unique to Earth are our biota and our culture. If aliens ever come here, they'd most likely be…

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This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent…

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The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources of energy - for example black holes, or even the…

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Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods…

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Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back…

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