We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

- Jill Tarter

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

- Jill Tarter

The space that we're looking through is nine-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount of searching that we've done in 50 years is e…

- Jill Tarter

In the future, will our technologies help stabilise or planet and population, leading to a very long lifetime for us? Or will we destroy our world an…

- Jill Tarter

We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. …

- Jill Tarter

Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be…

- Jill Tarter

SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.

- Jill Tarter

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

- Jill Tarter

Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans. …

- Jill Tarter