19th century Quote by Seth Shostak

Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research…

— Seth Shostak

Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered…

— Seth Shostak

As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been…

— Seth Shostak

Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400…

— Seth Shostak

Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite…

— Seth Shostak

In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the days before…

— Seth Shostak

Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to know.

— Seth Shostak

If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in about an…

— Seth Shostak

While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm a victim…

— Seth Shostak

I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to…

— Seth Shostak

About the only things that are unique to Earth are our biota and our culture. If aliens ever come here, they'd most likely be…

— Seth Shostak

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent…

— Seth Shostak