“Discoveries almost never arrive as we think they will, as lightning bolt
eurekas. They are slow, gradual, communal. Alien life may not be
something we ever ‘find’, but instead inch towards, ever closer, like a
curve approaching its asymptote. For all our desire to know who’s out
there, that may have to be enough”
eurekas. They are slow, gradual, communal. Alien life may not be
something we ever ‘find’, but instead inch towards, ever closer, like a
curve approaching its asymptote. For all our desire to know who’s out
there, that may have to be enough”