"The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly……" — Seth Shostak
"The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right - noises are commonplace. And in some cases, these noisy worlds may ring with the sounds of life - the bleats and bellows of creatures we have never seen, but may someday discover."
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Seth Shostak
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67 Quotes by Seth Shostak
Seth Shostak has 67 quotes on this site.
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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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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman…
— William Butler Yeats
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Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it…
— Laozi
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No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived.…
— Samuel Johnson
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They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the…
— William Shakespeare
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I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where…
— Leonard Nimoy
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows:…
— William Hazlitt
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The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil,…
— Leland Stanford
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Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty.…
— Markus Zusak
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Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was…
— John L. Parker Jr.
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And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a…
— Bohumil Hrabal
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Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years…
— Franz Kafka
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And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in…
— Markus Zusak
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