Quotes About Frank Drake

Right now, there could well be messages from the stars flying right through this room. Through you and me. And if we had the right receiver set up properly, we could detect them. I still get chills thinking about it.

The pulsar map is not dangerous at all. It will likely never even be seen by extraterrestrials.

The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system... and, also, the definition of 'habitable zone' has expanded. In our system, it used to be that only Mars and Earth were potentially habitable. Now we've got an ocean on Europa... Titan.

Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.