“The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.” MayDoeStillsFactsEarthFoundTechnologyListeningEvidenceSurpriseLifetimeCarrieTomsPrimitiveSavagesJungleDisappoint Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to make up such a sum. Always supposing that it wasn't one of a kind. Panic was no longer merely rearing. It was thundering through her at full throttle. There was only one thing to be done, she realized. The mature, responsible, adult thing to do. Hide the evidence.” IfsKindDoneHalfOne ThingTenEvidenceAdultsResponsibleLifetimeLocalsThings To DoShopsMaturePanicOutletsSupposingOne Of A KindSupposing ThatThrottle Author:Alexandra Ivy
“A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.” Has BeensMadeTwoScienceDecisionExistenceKnowledgeFieldsJudgingAuthorityEvidenceDiscoveryLifetimeDefinitionsApplicationRejectedPopeEvidentVariance Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling UFO reports into a scientifically defensible conceptual framework. By such reports I mean those with credible multiple or independent witnesses, instrumented observations, and physical evidence.” MeanSubjectsApproachEvidenceIndependentLifetimeObservationWitnessReasonableReportsMultipleHypothesisFrameworkUfoCrediblePuzzlingExtraterrestrialConceptual Framework Author:Jerome Clark
“If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.” IfsGivingFirstsHas BeensHardAmericaSeeingCrimeFieldsFitGiving UpEvidenceBaseballGuiltLifetimeProfessionPunishmentBlockDeniedPenaltiesDeath PenaltyBansChoppingBaseball Field Book:My Prison Without Bars Source: My Prison Without Bars
“Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen at all. As so often in this domain, there is conflicting evidence. The melting of polar or sea ice has no direct effect.” LevelsClearSeaEffectsEvidenceDirectLifetimeIceRisingGlobal WarmingGrandchildrenDomainMeltingRisenDirect Effect Author:Don Aitkin