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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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I scorn you, scurvy companion.
— William Shakespeare
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A very scurvy fellow.
— William Shakespeare
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The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in…
— Karl Marx
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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
— William Shakespeare
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I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
— Aisha Tyler
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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight…
— Art Donovan
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
— Ben Jonson
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He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague,…
— Salman Rushdie
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Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
— Lou Holtz
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Explorers tend to be the aggressive types - why else would they risk scurvy, mutiny and other bad things to go out…
— Seth Shostak
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