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Quotes About Extraterrestrial

I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our solar system.
~ John Flansburgh
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
~ Lily Tomlin
The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.
~ Buzz Aldrin
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.
~ Carl Sagan
If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even if they are microbes.
~ Carl Sagan
Writers of Earth-invader science fiction, please remember to provide all your aliens with soft grasping hands or tentacles or some other fleshy fat appendages.)
~ Edward O. Wilson
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. [IRC discussion at Scifi.com, 1 November 1996]
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
'Galaxy Quest' is a fantastic film.
~ Julian Barratt
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
~ Stephen Hawking
I'm scared of ghosts and aliens.
~ James Buckley
Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies.
~ Seth Shostak
Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
~ George Noory
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.
~ Tom DeLonge
I love 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'
~ Kenneth Lonergan
People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.
~ Frank Drake
In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three thousand additional objects, of which probably 80 percent or more will turn out to be other-worldly orbs.
~ Seth Shostak
One look at a banana and you can tell it came from outer space.
~ Margaret Atwood
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
~ Margaret Atwood
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
~ Jill Tarter
I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
~ John F. Kennedy
Don't get me wrong-I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved.
~ Jonathan Frakes
We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.
~ Edgar Mitchell