Another Quote by Jill Tarter

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask…

— Jill Tarter

The space that we're looking through is nine-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount of searching that we've done in 50 years…

— Jill Tarter

SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.

— Jill Tarter

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy,

— Jill Tarter

As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California,…

— Jill Tarter

In the future, will our technologies help stabilise or planet and population, leading to a very long lifetime for us? Or will we destroy…

— Jill Tarter

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

— Jill Tarter

Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot…

— Jill Tarter

We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't…

— Jill Tarter

The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through…

— Jill Tarter

Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among…

— Jill Tarter

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

— Jill Tarter