Top 23 Quotes About Seti I
#1. 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
#2. SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
Arthur C. Clarke
#3. Unless SETI can find an earth-like environment in other planets; its purpose to find intelligent beings means nothing but failure. The Caveman in the Box.
Joey Lawsin
#4. When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.
Rukhsar Din
#5. What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.
Marc Maron
#7. It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
Barney Oliver
#8. The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
Carl Sagan
#9. You're the first bangin' *ss hot b*tch I ever met that's got her sh*t together. Most hot b*tches are dumb as fuck.
Scott Hildreth
#10. ... now that I'm stuck here for an undetermined amount of time, it seems beyond foolish not to let me help." She took a bite for emphasis. "You could at least let me make you a sandwich," she added balefully through her mouthful.
"That was me being respectful of your law degree," Ian said.
Suzanne Brockmann
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.
Gregory Benford
#15. The notion of a universe filled with cowards ... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced they become ... seems no[t] only unimaginative and temporally myopic, but deeply dismal, as well.
David Brin
#16. Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
Hartley William Shawcross
#18. Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?
Erik Naggum
#19. Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage, took out to polish and show, and put back into the garage.
Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
#20. Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.
Erik Qualman
#22. The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it's not even tax money. The SETI Institute's hunt for signals is funded by donations.
Seth Shostak
#23. Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.
Nathan Myhrvold