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Seth Shostak has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.
— Noam Chomsky
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
— Eugene McCarthy
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South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the…
— Mamphela Ramphele
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Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
— Paul Samuelson
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Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of…
— Ron Paul
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There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
— Josh Billings
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Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
— Greg Bear
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The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the…
— Henry Ford
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