Charles Krauthammer Quote

As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy – a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence.

Column, December 30, 2011, "Are we alone in the universe?" at jewishworldreview.com.