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Quotes About Extraterrestrial

Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.
~ Paul Davies
Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly one-third of the populace believes that at least some of this sky show is due to extraterrestrial spacecraft, here to probe our airspace and, when that proves boring, our bodies.
~ Seth Shostak
I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today.
~ Craig Venter
Where are you originally from?" "The planet Lorien, three hundred million miles away." "Must have been a long trip, John Smith." "Took almost a year. Next time I'm bringing a book.
~ Pittacus Lore
SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Take all your iridescent spandex and Lycra fitness accessories to the nearest landfill and let the extraterrestrials use them as goalpost pennants in their rollerball tournaments when they excavate the ruins of our civilization.
~ Mark Leyner
Adamski's Disease.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
If the decades and the centuries pass with no indication that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, the long-term effects on human philosophy will be profound, and may be disastrous. Better to have neighbors we don't like than to be utterly alone. —Arthur C. Clarke
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I bet Obama had a great one prepared," says Seb. "I almost wish we'd been invaded by Martians, just so I could have heard it.
~ Sophie Kinsella
The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
~ Orrin Hatch
If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
~ Barney Oliver
Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
~ William Shatner
the other hand neither was he a man, nor any sapient proteinoid of the glutinous-albuminous variety. The head was round and plump, with red cheeks, but for eyes it had two penny whistles, and for ears it had thuribles, which gave off a thick cloud of incense. He was dressed
~ Stanis?aw Lem
And one candidate answer to the question of life here on Earth is: It didn't begin here at all. It started somewhere else and travelled here.
~ Stephen Baxter
NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either.
~ Stephen Colbert
If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.
~ Stephen Hawking
If there are beings alive on Alpha Centauri today, they remain blissfully ignorant of the rise of Donald Trump. It
~ Stephen Hawking
Personally, I get uneasy when people, especially theoretical physicists, talk about consciousness. Consciousness is not a quality that one can measure from the outside. If a little green man were to appear on our doorstep tomorrow, we do not have a way of telling if he was conscious and self-aware or was just a robot.
~ Stephen Hawking
This intelligent life need not be anything like humans. Little green men would do as well. In fact, they might do rather better. The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behaviour.
~ Stephen Hawking
unirse. Necesitamos reavivar la emoción de los primeros días del viaje espacial en los años sesenta. La tecnología está casi a nuestro alcance. Es hora de explorar otros sistemas solares; puede ser lo único que nos salve de nosotros mismos. Estoy convencido de que los humanos necesitamos dejar la Tierra para evitar correr el riesgo de ser aniquilados.
~ Stephen Hawking
they come up with that one? The
~ Erich von Däniken
Erão os Deuses Astronautas?
~ Erich von Däniken
I think there's a lot of intelligence out there, but that's just my guess. Question is: Are they peaceable or hostile? You could say that the peaceable ones are just going to stay at home and play with their Nintendos, so if you do meet any of them, they might be hostile.
~ Seth Shostak
Their math lacks integers!" "As far as we can tell," Jennifer added. "They don't use whole numbers at all. Only 'smears,' they call them.
~ Greg Bear