Seth ShostakIf you still believe that aliens would travel hundreds of light years to carve temporary graffiti in our wheat, then your imagination is one of the seven wonders of the world, and should be bronzed.
About This Quote
This quote is often misused to depict someone who has a fragile imagination. However, it’s actually about an actual event that took place. In the late 1950s, Dr. Morris K.
Jessup was a professor of physics at John Hopkins University, and was known to believe in the possibility of extraterrestrials visiting Earth. He wrote a book called “The Case for the UFO,” which actually contained some pretty detailed descriptions of space aliens according to Wikipedia. Unfortunately, this book went through several editors who removed most of his descriptions of alien life forms because they were too fantastic for their tastes. They also made changes so that the book would fit better with the scientific community’s already-developed theory of how our solar system was formed.
Of course, the real tragedy in all of this is that such a detailed description was never published by Jessup due to his obsession with keeping his ideas in line with the scientific community’s beliefs at the time. Of course, we know that space aliens exist and they do visit us from time to time! They just don’t leave behind any permanent messages and we rarely see them in person if we ever do encounter them. Their spacecraft are usually very large and we would likely die from radiation sickness if we ever got close enough to see one. The closest we ever got to seeing them was in July 2004 when two Canadian astronomers claimed to have seen nine bright objects in orbit around Mars! Unfortunately, they didn't look like anything we would recognize as alien spacecraft but more like satellites with lights on top of them! I guess you'd call them UFOs if you didn't know better!
Source: Confessions Of An Alien Hunter: A Scientists Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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