Hynek Quotes

#1. Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.

Quentin Crisp

#2. You were made for me," he breathes.

Kyra Davis

#3. Blue Book was now under direct orders to debunk ... I remember the conversations around the conference table in which it was suggested that Walt Disney or some educational cartoon producer be enlisted in [the] debunking process.

J. Allen Hynek

#4. As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.

J. Allen Hynek

#5. Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.

Bob McDonnell

#6. And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

Jean M. Auel

#7. When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

J. Allen Hynek

#8. Your stuff does not own the home; either control your belongings, or they will control you.

Janet Morris

#9. In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Billy Joel

#10. I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work.

Steve Burns

#11. Guilt chilled me more than all of this rain combined.

Katherine McIntyre

#12. Science is not always what scientists do.

J. Allen Hynek

#13. When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.

J. Allen Hynek

#14. Major Major's father had a good joke about opportunity. "Opportunity only knocks once in this world," he would say. Major Major's father repeated this good joke at every opportunity.

Joseph Heller

#15. The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.

Jordan Bridges

#16. I would not spend one further moment on the subject of UFOs if I didnt seriously feel that the UFO phenomenon is real and that efforts to investigate and understand it, and eventually to solve it, could have a profound effect
perhaps even be the springboard to mankinds outlook on the universe.

J. Allen Hynek

#17. Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is

J. Allen Hynek

#18. I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job.

Timothy Olyphant

#19. And as all Christians know there is another way of giving to God; every stranger whom we feed or clothe is Christ.

C.S. Lewis

#20. As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

Sara Sheridan

#21. Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods ... An investigative process in depth is necessary here if, after twenty years of confusion, we want some answers.

J. Allen Hynek