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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an…
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot…
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After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must…
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Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.
— Charley Pride
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The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
— Hannah Arendt
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
— Charles Darwin
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I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body…
— Karl Popper
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be…
— G. H. Hardy
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes…
— Isaac Newton
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