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Could Quotes by Seth Shostak
- In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because there was all…
- Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite the…
- Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as…
- The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will…
- Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks…
- Nine out of 10 Hollywood aliens look like us. Oh, sure, they might be short, big-eyed and hairless - decked out in skin smoother than…
- While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them…
- Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to 0.8 gigabytes of…
- The next time you check your moves in the mirror and reflect on how special you are, consider that somewhere in this universe or in…
- The strongest signals leaking off our planet are radar transmissions, not television or radio. The most powerful radars, such as the one mounted on the…
- Explorers tend to be the aggressive types - why else would they risk scurvy, mutiny and other bad things to go out there? So, you…
- Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York…
- The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the…
- Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle…
- We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say…
More Could Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well… — Neil Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough