Top 27 Jill Tarter Quotes
#1. It's easy to write upcoming scenes in books and television shows. Trusting God to write them in real life is a lot harder. But it's worth it. And you have to admit, it's an adventure.
Janice Thompson
#2. And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.
Daniel Libeskind
#3. Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head through a brick ceiling.
Dane Cook
#4. What people don't understand about deer is that they're vermin. They're giant, furry cockroaches. They invade a space, reproduce like hell, and eat everything in sight.
J. Ryan Stradal
#6. We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.
Jill Tarter
#8. 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.
Jill Tarter
#9. In the future, will our technologies help stabilise or planet and population, leading to a very long lifetime for us? Or will we destroy our world and its inhabitants, after only a brief appearance on the cosmic stage?
Jill Tarter
#10. SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.
Jill Tarter
#11. As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project.
Jill Tarter
#12. We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.
Jill Tarter
#13. When you're in the White House," Butterfield said, "everyone lies. You can sort of get feeling immune.
Bob Woodward
#14. Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#15. 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.
Jill Tarter
#17. Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak.
Jill Tarter
#18. As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
#19. The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless.
[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist']
Herman Bondi
#20. [Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
Al Pacino
#21. In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: 'That must be nice.'
Beth Ditto
#22. We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star.
Jill Tarter
#23. Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.
Jill Tarter
#24. She had told herself more than once not to call it loneliness, since it wasn't any different from one year to the next, it was just how her body felt, like hungry or tired, except it was always there, always the same.
Marilynne Robinson
#25. The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.
Jill Tarter
#26. We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
Jill Tarter
#27. The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.
Jill Tarter
