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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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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end…
— George R. R. Martin
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My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of…
— Hans Selye
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The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear…
— Irving Fisher
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If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure…
— Eduard Suess
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Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would…
— Dave Freudenthal
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I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
— Anne McCaffrey
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"Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex…
— Barack Obama
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I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page…
— Charlaine Harris
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A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him,…
— John Stuart Mill
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