“We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The ...” — Seth Shostak Quote

“We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars - the kind that dominate the night sky, but are lamentably both rare and short-lived. If biology's your thing, you can forget those guys.”

“When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics' magazine. Soldering up some radio or hi-fi amplifier on the basement workbench was not just a personal passion - a lot of young people were doing the same. The magazine expired in 1999 for lack of interest.”

“I believe God controls the universe. I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.”

“We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.”

“Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.”