Dean Haglund Quotes

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.

It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try to answer every one of these mails and phone calls because, after all, it's not a violation of physics to travel from one star system to another.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast distances.

I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.

Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe.

I believe there's other forms of intelligence in the universe. I've seen and heard some pretty convincing UFO stuff. Besides, if we're the most intelligent things in the universe... well, that's just depressing.

I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe.

We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.

Together, NASA and Hubble are opening new vistas on the universe.

There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.

Fred Hoyle was one of the first scientists to become famous on television and radio. It was because he told a dramatic story about the universe - about how amazing it is and the extraordinary discoveries that astronomers like him were making.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.