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There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'…
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There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the…
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The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.
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[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth…
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The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't even talked about…
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In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because…
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The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands…
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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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The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a…
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A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it…
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Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness…
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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…
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn…
— Richard Dawkins
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The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb…
— Stephen Hawking
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According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large…
— Brian Greene
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I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to…
— Carl Sagan
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There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars,…
— Carl Sagan
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The universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred…
— Carl Sagan
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One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of…
— Mark Haddon
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For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck…
— Carl Sagan
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It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of…
— Seth Shostak
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WHO IS LIKE THE LORD OUR GOD, WHO DWELLS ON HIGH, WHO HUMBLES HIMSELF TO BEHOLD THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE…
— Unknown Author
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