--- title: "11 Billion Quotes By Seth Shostak" description: "11 Billion quotes by Seth Shostak. Plus more from Seth Shostak and more Billion sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e34/seth-shostak-2047_billion_data-from-orbiting-telescopes-like-nasa_1990949.png" --- > [Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/data-from-orbiting-telescopes-like-nasa-s-kepler-mission-hint-that/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e34/seth-shostak-2047_billion_data-from-orbiting-telescopes-like-nasa_1990949.png) > [The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/the-moon-is-a-ball-of-left-over-debris-from-a-cosmic-collision-that/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67a/seth-shostak-2047_asteroid_the-moon-is-a-ball-of-left-over-debris-f_2729068.jpg) > [The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation's 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn't around.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/the-cosmos-is-three-times-as-old-as-earth-during-most-of-creation-s/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da9/seth-shostak-2047_around_the-cosmos-is-three-times-as-old-as-eart_2825916.png) > ['What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/what-was-there-before-the-big-bang-that-s-a-question-that-both-kids/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71d/seth-shostak-2047_adult_what-was-there-before-the-big-bang-that_1989830.png) > [It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/it-bears-mentioning-that-the-milky-way-is-only-one-of-150-billion/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/seth-shostak-2047_bears_it-bears-mentioning-that-the-milky-way-i_3133384.png) > [The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/the-math-is-dead-simple-it-seems-that-the-frequency-of-planets-able/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ec/seth-shostak-2047_able_the-math-is-dead-simple-it-seems-that-th_2396153.jpg) > [Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/consider-life-arose-on-earth-close-to-four-billion-years-ago-four/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06e/seth-shostak-2047_able_consider-life-arose-on-earth-close-to-fo_2974962.png) > [Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/give-consideration-to-the-fact-that-alien-astronomers-could-have/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1f/seth-shostak-2047_alien_give-consideration-to-the-fact-that-alie_49116.png) > [Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/consider-the-human-genome-consists-of-about-3-3-billion-base-pairs/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b26/seth-shostak-2047_about_consider-the-human-genome-consists-of-ab_3137198.jpg) > [It's easy to reckon that the oomph to hurl even a Smart Car-size spacecraft to another star at, say, 20 percent the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/it-s-easy-to-reckon-that-the-oomph-to-hurl-even-a-smart-car-size/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd8/seth-shostak-2047_another_it-s-easy-to-reckon-that-the-oomph-to-hu_2315553.png) > [The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/the-earth-has-been-lawned-with-life-for-something-over-3-5-billion/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4f/seth-shostak-2047_been_the-earth-has-been-lawned-with-life-for_947521.png) ## More by Seth Shostak > [Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/studying-sol-s-interior-by-looking-for-analogous-patterns-on-its/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/some-pundits-have-proposed-that-the-aliens-have-come-here-to-breed/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/as-far-as-i-can-tell-the-only-unambiguous-consequence-of-the-claimed/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/look-science-is-hard-it-has-a-reputation-of-being-hard-and-the-facts/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/give-consideration-to-the-fact-that-alien-astronomers-could-have/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/in-a-movie-it-s-often-important-to-have-aliens-whose-gestures-and/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/sure-nobody-will-make-a-fortune-if-we-figure-out-why-the-big-bang/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/if-you-could-drive-straight-down-into-a-tunnel-bored-through-the/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/while-i-have-always-thought-that-the-motivation-for-looking-for-e-t/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/i-studied-latin-in-high-school-and-i-was-reading-stuff-from-cicero/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/about-the-only-things-that-are-unique-to-earth-are-our-biota-and-our/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/this-plucky-nasa-telescope-is-able-to-find-planets-en-masse-if-you/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources of energy - for example black holes, or even the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/the-most-attractive-habitats-for-synthetic-sentience-might-be-the/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/buying-insurance-is-no-one-s-idea-of-fun-and-it-s-especially-easy-to/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) > [Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/plate-tectonics-is-not-all-havoc-and-destruction-the-slow-movement-of/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/billion/seth-shostak/#itemlist", "name": "11 Billion Quotes By Seth Shostak", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. 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In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. 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Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the last 200 thousand years has a species arisen that can fathom the laws of nature and build hardware able to signal its presence.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Seth Shostak" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/consider-life-arose-on-earth-close-to-four-billion-years-ago-four/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06e/seth-shostak-2047_able_consider-life-arose-on-earth-close-to-fo_2974962.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06e/seth-shostak-2047_able_consider-life-arose-on-earth-close-to-fo_2974962.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06e/seth-shostak-2047_able_consider-life-arose-on-earth-close-to-fo_2974962.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. 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Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to 0.8 gigabytes of information, or about what you can fit on a CD. With a microwave radio transmitter, you could beam that amount of information into space in a few minutes, and have it travel to anyone at light speed.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Seth Shostak" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/consider-the-human-genome-consists-of-about-3-3-billion-base-pairs/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b26/seth-shostak-2047_about_consider-the-human-genome-consists-of-ab_3137198.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b26/seth-shostak-2047_about_consider-the-human-genome-consists-of-ab_3137198.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b26/seth-shostak-2047_about_consider-the-human-genome-consists-of-ab_3137198.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. 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