Distance Quote by Jill Tarter

Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance…

— Seth Shostak

Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our…

— Seth Shostak

If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years…

— Martin Rees

I'm at a funny crossroads, personally. I really want to turn my attention away from planet-hunting towards Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program at…

— Geoffrey Marcy

The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

That intelligent creatures exist in outerspace is proven by the fact that they have not contacted us.

— Loesje

Let us put it this way, techno-scientific intelligence is presently insufficiently spread among society at large to enable us to interpret the sorts of…

— Paul Virilio

We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the…

— Jacque Fresco

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's…

— Anonymous

The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search…

— Yuri Milner

“The world’s governments have many classified layers and outsiders rarely gain access to their hidden secrets. And certainly no common man can get confirmation…

— Dr. Takaaki Musha

If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America's vast intelligence infrastructure.

— Trevor Paglen