"I'm at a funny crossroads, personally. I really want to turn my attention away from planet-hunting towards Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program at UC-Berkeley. I'm in this lucky position that my career has been more successful than I could have ever imagined. It's time for me to roll the dice, try something that's a long shot. Younger scientists can't put their eggs in that basket, because if you spend your time on SETI, your chances of success are low. But I have the luxury. There are some experiments we can do to hunt for the great galactic Internet."

Source : "Hunting for the Great Galactic Internet". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. April 8, 2012.

Geoffrey Marcy

#Successful Quotes #Long Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make a world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world.”
“What the people of the world want most and have always wanted is bread and peace.”
“The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption â€” and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizensâ€™ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.”
“Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.”
“It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.”
“Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?”

Source : "You Might Be a Redneck If". Book by Jeff Foxworthy, 1993.
“You don't have to die in order to make a living.”

Source : "For Better or For Worse (ID 9706)". Comic strip by Lynn Johnston, www.fborfw.com. October 14, 2005.
“Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.302

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