“It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.” IfsMadeWould BeChanceFairsPityContactFrustrated Book:The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver Source: The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver
“The chances of there being transmissibility by blood to blood contact on a basketball court is so infinitesimally small that it is something that shouldn't influence a decision whether someone would come back or not.” ChanceDecisionBloodInfluenceBasketballCourtContactBasketball Court Author:Anthony S. Fauci
“As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.” HumansMatterTogetherChanceHuman BeingsDealsClassModernParticularConsciousContactCuriousFascinationModern Life Author:Louis Auchincloss
“My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.” KnowsHumansWholeUniverseIndividualChanceQualityMankindHigherStructureContactNervousObservationConvinceCerebral Author:Aleister Crowley
“This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured just because they are largely due to chance.” ChanceEffectsDuesContactMechanicFriction Book:Carl von Clausewitz: Historical and Political Writings Source: Carl von Clausewitz: Historical and Political Writings