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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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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of…
— Saint Augustine
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating…
— Noah Webster
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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness...
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by…
— Thomas Hobbes
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By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are…
— Gerolamo Cardano
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Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous…
— Unknown Author
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I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero
— Michel de Montaigne
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What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that…
— Jean Paul
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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.
— Saint Augustine
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