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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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And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to,…
— Dave Barry
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with…
— Walter Pater
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth…
— Walter Pater
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The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization…
— Harold Innis
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The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from…
— Ezra Hall Gillett
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has…
— Michel Foucault
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A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far…
— Russell Page
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
— Walter Pater
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People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun…
— Jemima Kirke
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly…
— H.G. Wells
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The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe.” “Really?” she asked. “Were you there?” His features blank, he looked…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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