“Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligen...” — Seth Shostak Quote

“Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets.”

“Explorers tend to be the aggressive types - why else would they risk scurvy, mutiny and other bad things to go out there? So, you could say that any aliens that are actually moving and interested in going somewhere are likely to be more aggressive. But who knows?”

“Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table.”

“It was Cosmos who actually told Crystal Palace about me. Palace came to have a look, liked what they saw, and they took it from there.”

“I don't think I know better than what the cosmos has in store for me.”

“SpaceX has reopened the cosmos, and the space race is back on, only this time it is in the private sector.”