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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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And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a…
— Maya Angelou
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Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view,…
— Dan B. Allender
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Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of…
— Kevin DeYoung
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In almost all cases, I’m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set…
— Martin Fowler
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I highly recommend setting aside pockets of time during each day for solitude. You might have only five or ten minutes, but…
— Mac Anderson
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the…
— Terry Eagleton
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Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
— Jeremy Bentham
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You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You…
— Seth Godin
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Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only…
— Claude Bernard
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