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Stars Quotes by Seth Shostak
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something…
- [O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It…
- The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of…
- Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as…
- Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in systems rather than…
- The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources of energy - for example black holes, or even the neighbourhoods…
- A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as…
- Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang…
- The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even…
- The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are…
More Stars Quotes
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two… — David Attenborough
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky,… — Sai Baba
- America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does. — Sebastian Bach
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- Well, it's embarrassing to be a star. — Christian Bale
- A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire.… — Christian Bale
- I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and… — Christian Bale
- There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it… — Christian Bale