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Habitable Quotes: What Makes a World Livable

Quotes on habitability and belonging

These habitable quotes often start with science, exploring the conditions believed necessary for Life to emerge on a planet.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Intelligence
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Nov 07, 2020

I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.

Quotes by Simon Conway Morris

Hot
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Nov 07, 2020

The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases.

Quotes by Seth Shostak

Nov 07, 2020

Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ensuring that our children and grandchildren will have a habitable world where they can get to know various species of sea turtles.

Quotes by Jane Velez-Mitchell

Culture
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Nov 07, 2020

Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

Earth
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Nov 07, 2020

NASA, and all the other spacefaring nations of the world, have agreed to a set of 'planetary-protection' principles, aimed at preventing the accidental contamination of another habitable world with organisms from Earth.

Quotes by David Grinspoon

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Quotes by Bram Stoker

Others widen the idea to our own planet's Environment, or even to communities, arguing that diversity can make a place more habitable in a human sense.

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