Winston Churchill Quotes
It is probable that extraterrestrial life existed somewhere in the universe.... I am not sufficiently conceited to think that my sun is the only one with a family of planets. I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time.
This very serious essay on life in the Universe was actually written in 1938, immediately before Churchill would enter the War Cabinet and begin to lead teh Brisih people so heroicaly through the Second World War. However it dod not get pblished unti the 1950s, when there was not much seriosu thought and research given to the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. By the 21st century, most Cosmologists felt that there eas an extremly high probability of extra terrestial life. Interestingly, the major argument given for this has been the vastly larger number of galaxies, stars and planets than had been thought in most of the 20th century. Without the mathematics used today, Churchill had intuitively realized that the vastness of the universe was the key to the liklihood of other life.
Winston Churchill, Essay, "Are We Alone in the Universe", Oct. 16, 1939
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.