Quotes About Life-form

In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

Today, a science fiction writer looking for a futuristic tale of silicon dominance would not pick upon the chemistry of silicon so much as the physics of silicon for his prognostications. But this form of silicon life could not have evolved spontaneously : it requires a carbon-based life-form to act as a catalyst. We are that catalyst.

Genes come together to construct a magnificent life-form, while neurons come together to form our Illusion of Consciousness.

Toronto's already ass-deep in cockroaches and conservatives; what's one more lower life-form?

There is a fossil in this meteorite! Not just a speck of bacteria or microbes, but an advanced life-form! Proof of life elsewhere in the universe!

Any life-form advanced enough to travel light-years through interstellar space would have nothing to learn by probing the rectums of farmers in Kansas. Nor would these life-forms need to morph into reptiles and infiltrate governments in order to take over earth. Any life-form with the technology to travel to earth would require no subterfuge or subtlety to dominate us instantaneously.

If you even *need* a government, added Stig, you are a life-form flawed beyond redemption.

To a text-based life-form, unpredictable syntax and poor grammar is a source of huge discomfort. Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom. Poor syntax is even worse. Change word order and a sentence useless for anyone Yoda except you have.

I'd also heard that humans were a life-form of, at best, middling intelligence and prone to violence, deep sexual embarrassment, bad poetry, and walking around in circles.

Carl Sagan caught the attention of college audiences on his lecture tours by pointing out that, if aliens are watching us from outer space, they must be assuming that automobiles are the dominant life-form; we service them, maintain them, fuel them, house them, and build roads for their convenience rather than our own.