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21 " This is the way the world endsNot with a ban but a whimper. "
― Avi Loeb , Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
22 " truth is not dictated by the number of likes on Twitter but rather by evidence. "
23 " The value of information doesn’t reside in the number of thumbs-ups it gets but in what we do with it. And then I put to them a question that many Harvard undergraduates feel they have the answer to: Are we—that is, human beings—the smartest kids on the block? "
24 " If radiation pressure is the accelerating force,” we wrote, “then ‘Oumuamua represents a new class of thin interstellar material, either produced naturally . . . or is of an artificial origin. "
25 " If evidence of extraterrestrial life appeared in our solar system, would we notice? If we are expecting the bang of gravity-defying ships on the horizon, do we risk missing the subtle sound of other arrivals? What if, for instance, that evidence was inert or defunct technology- the equivalent, perhaps, of a billion-year-old civilization's trash? "
26 " The data we confront tells us that ‘Oumuamua was a luminous, thin disk at the LSR, and when it encountered the gravitational pull of the Sun, it deviated from a trajectory explicable by gravity alone, and it did so without visible outgassing or disintegration. These data points can be summed up as follows: ‘Oumuamua was statistically a wild outlier. "
27 " studying anything at the university seemed far more exciting than slogging through the muck with a rifle on my back. "
28 " Over time, I have come to appreciate science slightly more than philosophy. Whereas philosophers spend a great deal of time inside their own heads, scientists are all about having a dialogue with the world. "
29 " Be humble, Earthlings. "