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...
Sometimes people… think the equation is highly speculative. In fact, it is just the opposite, since each phenomenon it assumes to take place in the universe is an event that has already taken place at least once. Frank Drake
Sometimes people… think the equation is highly speculative. In fact, it is just the opposite, since each phenomenon it assumes to take place in the universe is an event that has already taken place at least once.
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.
That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Frank Drake
That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
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.
Is there intelligent life on Earth? Frank Drake
Is there intelligent life on Earth?
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.
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 night sky that thrills me. 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 night sky that thrills me.
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 itself is common, I'm certain. Frank Drake
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 itself is common, I'm certain.
Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems—no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them. Frank Drake
Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems—no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.
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.
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.
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.