Quotes

‘The sky’s the limit’ may be just another way of saying there are no limits, but space does have borders. We just don’t know exactly where they are.

Ken Croswell

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Oscar Wilde

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.

Michael Tsarion

Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?

Frank Drake

To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.

Metrodorus

For the first time in our history, we are studying something that is studying us.

Marilyn Teare

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.

Lucretius

If the Universe is so big, and so old, and so finely balanced to support life like us, why are we seemingly alone?….Where is everybody?

Enrico Fermi

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

Paul Davies

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Carl Sagan

There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.

Desmond Morris

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

W. Heisenberg

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and lead us from this world to another.

Plato

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke