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Top 10 Seth Shostak Quotes (2024 Update)

Seth Shostak Quote: “Our brains are wired to interpret shapes as faces and bodies. That’s why people see the Virgin Mary in the clouds or even in cheese sandwiches. It’s your cytoplasm, not some strange ectoplasm.”

1. “Our brains are wired to interpret shapes as faces and bodies. That’s why people see the Virgin Mary in the clouds or even in cheese sandwiches. It’s your cytoplasm, not some strange ectoplasm.”

— Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak Quote: “The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.”

2. “The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.”

— Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak Quote: “Five centuries from now – barring unimaginable catastrophe – the moon will be developed real estate. There’s economic incentive to exploit the moon – the helium-3 will be useful in powering fusion reactors, and the rare earth elements could supplant the limited terrestrial supply of these materials.”

3. “Five centuries from now – barring unimaginable catastrophe – the moon will be developed real estate. There’s economic incentive to exploit the moon – the helium-3 will be useful in powering fusion reactors, and the rare earth elements could supplant the limited terrestrial supply of these materials.”

— Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak Quote: “If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be less than one grain of sand.”

4. “If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be less than one grain of sand.”

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Seth Shostak Quote: “The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.”

5. “The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.”

— Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak Quote: “If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.”

6. “If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.”

— Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak Quote: “Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.”

7. “Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.”

— Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak Quote: “No heating system can deliver perfectly uniform temperatures throughout a house, and drafts can magnify the perceived difference in temperatures. Try walking around with a thermometer.”

8. “No heating system can deliver perfectly uniform temperatures throughout a house, and drafts can magnify the perceived difference in temperatures. Try walking around with a thermometer.”

— Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak Quote: “We’re hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it’s a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.”

9. “We’re hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it’s a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.”

— Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak Quote: “The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.”

10. “The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.”

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Seth Shostak Quote: “While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won’t find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science museum. Why? Well, one explanation that you might consider, ghosts are just figments of our highly fertile imaginations!”

11. “While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won’t find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science museum. Why? Well, one explanation that you might consider, ghosts are just figments of our highly fertile imaginations!”

— Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak Quote: “Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.”

12. “Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.”

— Seth Shostak

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