"The space that we're looking through is nine-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount of searching that we've done in 50 years is equivalent to scooping one 8-ounce glass out of the Earth's ocean, looking and seeing if you caught a fish. No, no fish in that glass? Well, I don't think you're going to conclude that there are no fish in the ocean. You just haven't searched very well yet. That's where we are."

-- Jill Tarter

#Ocean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.”
“Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.”
“Governments should be role models of leadership and improve the utilization of ICT in all the governmental departments in order to improve the efficiency of governmental services and motivate ICT industries.”

Source : Speech at ESCWA Team of Experts Meeting, Amman, Jordan, May 15, 2000.
“If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?”
“Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities â€“ thought, feeling, will â€“ to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.”
“I love exploring New York and I think that's what is so exciting about it. You find places that you've never heard of or seen before all the time.”
“If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. July 8, 2011.
“A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.”

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