A fellow Newtonian, rgstrickert, was kind enough to fill me in on the Fermi's Paradox question via Newton mail. I will quote from his note: I think Fermi's Paradox refers to a quote attributed to Enrico Fermi concerning the question of extraterrestrials. I have seen the quote in more than one source, but I have found it on page 578 of *The Anthropic Cosmological Principle* by John D. Barrow & Frank J. Tipler - " If they existed, they would be here." I never met Enrico Fermi, but from what others have told me about him when I was a student at the University of Chicago, it sounds as if the quote is just how Fermi would sum up the whole ET issue.
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