Frank Donald Drake (Born May 28, 1930) is an American astronomer and astrophysicist.
He is most notable as one of the pioneers in the search for extraterrestrial intel...
This discovery, which I fully expect to witness before the year 2000, will profoundly change the world. Frank Drake
This discovery, which I fully expect to witness before the year 2000, will profoundly change the world.
Almost anyone we find will be more advanced than us. In any case, to answer your question, you would not tell them anything until you knew something about them, until you knew what might make sense to tell them. Frank Drake
Almost anyone we find will be more advanced than us. In any case, to answer your question, you would not tell them anything until you knew something about them, until you knew what might make sense to tell them.
It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do. Frank Drake
It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.
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 word we say echoes to the remotest star. 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 word we say echoes to the remotest star.
It doesn't tell you anything about the civilization, but it tells you a civilization is there. Frank Drake
It doesn't tell you anything about the civilization, but it tells you a civilization is there.
At this very minute, with almost absolute certainty, radio waves sent forth by other intelligent civilizations are falling on the earth. Frank Drake
At this very minute, with almost absolute certainty, radio waves sent forth by other intelligent civilizations are falling on the earth.
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 that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. 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 that under one of them was the gem we were seeking.
A telescope can be built that, pointed in the right place, and tuned to the right frequency, could discover these waves. Frank Drake
A telescope can be built that, pointed in the right place, and tuned to the right frequency, could discover these waves.
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
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.
Someday, from somewhere out among the stars, will come the answers to many of the oldest, most important, and most exciting questions mankind has asked. Frank Drake
Someday, from somewhere out among the stars, will come the answers to many of the oldest, most important, and most exciting questions mankind has asked.
So just the fact they exist isn’t good enough to send some useful message. You need to start off somehow, which may be difficult. ...We want to tell them about us and what is special about us, what we think is special about us. Frank Drake
So just the fact they exist isn’t good enough to send some useful message. You need to start off somehow, which may be difficult. ...We want to tell them about us and what is special about us, what we think is special about us.
I found I could reduce the whole agenda for the meeting to a single line [the Drake equation]. Of course, I didn’t have real values for most of the factors. But I did have a compelling equation that summarized the topics to be discussed. Frank Drake
I found I could reduce the whole agenda for the meeting to a single line [the Drake equation]. Of course, I didn’t have real values for most of the factors. But I did have a compelling equation that summarized the topics to be discussed.
