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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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I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.
— Jeff Bridges
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One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."
— Marcus J. Ranum
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which…
— Joseph Addison
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We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.
— Herb Caen
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What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In…
— Wendy Carlos
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Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge…
— Frank Zappa
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Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is…
— William Zinsser
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Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature…
— Unknown Author
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Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...
— Alan Hollinghurst
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Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit…
— John Kessel
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