There is a lurking fear that some things are not โmeant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.
Carl SaganFor years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl SaganImagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.
Carl Sagan