“It now appears that essentially every star has a planetary system. In ...” — Frank Drake Quote

“It now appears that essentially every star has a planetary system. In the very beginning, we thought at best half.”

“In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the data. It turned out to be an amateur radio enthusiast near the observatory, but at the time, I thought we had detected clear evidence of another civilisation.”

“While NASA talks about 'Are we alone?' as a number one question, they are putting zero money into searching for intelligent life. There's a big disconnect there.”

“You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.”

“An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too.”

“History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.”