"Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional……" — Seth Shostak
"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 numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy."
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67 Quotes by Seth Shostak
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There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really…
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There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ...…
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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…
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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…
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In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home.…
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The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance…
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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…
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The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born…
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A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars.…
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Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told…
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Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting…
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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If…
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Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the…
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Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects…
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Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ...…
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A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists…
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The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only…
— William Herschel
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them.…
— Unknown Author
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Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of…
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The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star…
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