J Allen Hynek Quotes

#1. This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.
(Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate ... )

Terry Pratchett

#2. THERE IS, IN the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children

Mark Lawrence

#3. Deep down, nature is inherently peaceful, calm and beautiful. The universe as a whole is perfect. The chaos is on the surface.

Amit Ray

#4. I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy.

Conrad Sewell

#5. The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front.

Jamie Dornan

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#9. 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

#10. Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

Oliver Goldsmith

#11. Easy way to make someone sound less powerful, just put DJ in front of their name ...
..DJ Abraham Lincoln

Demetri Martin

#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. 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

#15. An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?

Ayn Rand

#16. With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!

Philip Sidney

#17. The Lord always shows you all the difficulties when He is going to do anything through you.

Rees Howells

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

J. Allen Hynek

#19. I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.

Brad Pitt

#20. 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

#21. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

Rudyard Kipling

#22. There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Robert Peel