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Quotes About Aliens

Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Long live transfinite mountains, the hollow earth, time machines, fractal writing, aliens, dada, telepathy, flying saucers, warped space, teleportation, artificial reality, robots, pod people, hylozoism, endless shrinking, intelligent goo, antigravity, surrealism, software highs, two-dimensional time, gnarly computation, the art of photo composition, pleasure zappers, nanomachines, mind viruses, hyperspace, monsters from the deep and, of course, always and forever, the attack of the giant ants!
~ Rudy Rucker
The aliens arrive. We like the part where we get saved. We like the part where we get destroyed. Why do those feel so similar? Either way, it's an end.
~ Margaret Atwood
We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.
~ Edgar Mitchell
At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.
~ Scott Carpenter
So let me just catch you up on what is going on here," Cheryl told her. "There's this bunch of total strangers, see, eating lunch in a hamburger joint. All these different people on their lunch break. And these space aliens come and kidnap them and take them off to study them, because they believe
~ Anne Tyler
for some disturbing reason, no one suggests that aliens may have assisted in building the Parthenon or Colosseum.)
~ Seth Shostak
If you still believe that aliens would travel hundreds of light years to carve temporary graffiti in our wheat, then your imagination is one of the seven wonders of the world, and should be bronzed.
~ Seth Shostak
You must have had such a great childhood with a man like that for your father. (Delphine) Yeah. All puppy dogs and rainbows and those weird furry people with padded coat hangers on their heads that look like space aliens on acid. (Jericho)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yeah. All puppy dpgs and rainbows and those weird furry people with padded coat hangers on their heads that look like space aliens on acid. You mean the telitubbies?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The aliens are using us, the argument goes, for their own purposes, replenishing their genetic stock at our expense after some sort of holocaust on their own planet. If they make us feel that there is something worthwhile about the whole process, this is the result of deception. I would not say that the aliens never resort to deception to hide their purposes, but the above argument is, in my view, too narrow or linear an interpretation.
~ John E. Mack
The alien beings have come to the abductees from a source that remains unknown to us. We still do not fully grasp their purposes or their methods. It seems clear, however, that "they" have had to come to "us," appearing in material form so that we might know them.
~ John E. Mack
This has not meant a blind surrender to the aliens' purposes, but is, rather, the recognition of the need to let go of control in the face of mysterious forces that she cannot usefully oppose.
~ John E. Mack
How, for example, do the aliens pass people through walls? Questions such as this might seem absurd, or suggestive only of observational error or psychosis, to those whose parameters of reality have been limited to
~ John E. Mack
It has been suggested that the aliens are many thousands of years ahead of human beings in their mastery of various technologies. Perhaps so. In any event, we cannot begin to answer any of these questions within the framework of modern science.
~ John E. Mack
They experience the aliens, indeed their abductions themselves, as happening in another reality, although one that is as powerfully actual to them as – or more so than – the familiar physical world.
~ John E. Mack
He said the beings are in the process of changing themselves physically "so they can breathe here. They don't breathe the same as we do." Scott revealed other problems for both of our species should the aliens' presence be manifest on a large scale too soon. "We're not up to their speed," he said. "They think much faster than we do," and "They're going to make it so they don't hurt us.
~ John E. Mack
Abductees tend to feel that the contents of their minds are thoroughly revealed to the aliens.
~ John E. Mack
The connection that human beings experience through looking into the eyes of the aliens seems to be a central feature of the acknowledgment of the existence of the beings and the establishment of the bond itself.
~ John E. Mack
The most popular answer to this question among those who take the phenomenon seriously is that the aliens do not dare to manifest themselves more directly. Government leaders would panic, might attack them, and surely would not know how to avoid scaring the rest of us.
~ John E. Mack
There is considerable debate among investigators of the abduction phenomenon about whether, given the harsh and often terrorizing methods the aliens employ, the intelligence at work might be evil or mean us harm.
~ John E. Mack
To deal with what a High Federalist claimed was the "army of spies and incendiaries scattered through the continent," two acts authorized the deportation of aliens who were already in the country.44
~ John Ferling
Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we're basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we're basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us. We'd at least, by then, developed the tech to fix our brains so we could accept emotionally what logic should have showed us.
~ Elizabeth Bear