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

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.

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!

If it has failure written all over it, it's definitely not your portion in life.

Prayer is a conversation between two people who love each other -you and the Lord-and you don't have to use fancy or religious words to dialogue with him.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.

It's very important to enjoy what you're doing or else you are always going to procrastinate.

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.