When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.Desmond Tutu
The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren.Seth Shostak
Our brains are continuing to evolve, and perhaps a few tens of thousands of years from now, our descendants will walk around with five pound brains, allowing them insights that we can't imagine.Seth Shostak
In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because there was all this science just lying around waiting for somebody to pick it up.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.Seth Shostak
Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.Seth Shostak
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.Coco Chanel
