We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.

Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!

I'm a one-drink woman two at the most three I'm under the table four I'm under the host.

Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

I think we need to find somebody that can meet that standard.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.

An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.