Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.

If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.

I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

Life wants you to be able to fully receive and give affection and love.

… there’s a difference between having no one because you’ve chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.

A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language trying to get human feelings right.

This is why you play - to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs.

All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver.

We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.

All because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.