Seth Shostak Quotes

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.

A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.

Every fish in the ocean is in danger.

Over the last several decades, human activity have so altered the basic chemistry of the seas that they are now experiencing evolution in reverse to the barren primeval waters of hundreds of millions of years ago.

One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

Everybody's got some fascination with undersea life, don't you think?

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and Saturn and meteor showers.

We never see any journalism or documentaries on the oceans and what we're doing on this Earth and how it affects the oceans and how important they are. I'm intrigued by it. It's almost an untold story.

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

Yes I do it big, call me little astronomical. Weezy F. Baby and the F is for phenomenal.

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

The planets are lining up, bringing brighter days.

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

it is the nature of stars to cross

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.

It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.

Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.