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Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester and co-founder of NPR’s 13.7: Cosmos and Culture blog and an on-air...
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“Making progress in science often hinges on asking the right kind of question.
Without a well-posed question, discussions become little more than people talking (or yelling) past each other.
And without a well-posed question, there’s no clear path toward gathering data that will yield answers.
Finding a good question is like throwing open the shades in a dark room.
It’s the first step in finding a new way to tell is important. It tells us where we should be looking, where we should be going, and how to begin organizing our efforts to get there.”
― Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Without a well-posed question, discussions become little more than people talking (or yelling) past each other.
And without a well-posed question, there’s no clear path toward gathering data that will yield answers.
Finding a good question is like throwing open the shades in a dark room.
It’s the first step in finding a new way to tell is important. It tells us where we should be looking, where we should be going, and how to begin organizing our efforts to get there.”
― Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
“From the exoplanet data, astronomers can now say with confidence that one out of every five stars hosts a world where life as we know it could form.
So, when you’re standing out there under the night sky, choose five random stars.
Chances are, one of them has a world in its Goldilocks zone where liquid water could be flowing across its surface and life might already exist.”
― Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
So, when you’re standing out there under the night sky, choose five random stars.
Chances are, one of them has a world in its Goldilocks zone where liquid water could be flowing across its surface and life might already exist.”
― Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
“Ultimately, the problem we face is confronting a twenty-third-century dilemma armed only with a thirteenth-century mind. Our project of civilization has been successful on scales we could not have imagined when we began it ten millennia ago. But with that success has come consequences that will last for centuries.”
― Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
― Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
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