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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
— Josh Billings
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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a…
— Wernher von Braun
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
— Fred Allen
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It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our…
— William J. Clinton
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'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about…
— Galileo Galilei
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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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