Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life it…

- Frank Drake

Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the ni…

- Frank Drake

"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that every …

- Frank Drake

Only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the future.

- Frank Drake

Is there intelligent life on Earth?

- Frank Drake

To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope t…

- Frank Drake