From Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular science:
Don’t you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don’t you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out “Don’t you believe in anything?”
Yes”, I said. “I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.
OK what about the crop circles of southern england over many years now.I would like a comment on these incredible formations Have you seen them?
No, I haven’t. I don’t know what Mr. Asimov would say about them.