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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 wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
— John James Audubon
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The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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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.'…
— Seth Shostak
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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps…
— Carl Linnaeus
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It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen…
— Louis Agassiz
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Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal…
— Robert Wright
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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach…
— Louis Agassiz
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Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided…
— Louis Agassiz
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If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this…
— Aristotle
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The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
— Abraham Maslow
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We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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