Extraterrestrial Quotes - Page 3

• My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds?

  Thomas Ligotti

  Thinking, Imagination, Sound

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• Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea--if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hate, Ideas, Two

  "The Dark Haired Girl". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1989.

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• It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.

  Paul Davies

  Fashion, Truth Is, Said

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Davies". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 15, 2010.

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• When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cute, Children, Dad

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• In the Year 2000 the discovery of extraterrestrial life will create a revolution in science, art, and pornography.

  Conan O'Brien

  Art, Discovery, Years

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• Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Party, Two, America

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.

  Rick Yancey

  Believe, Encounters, Outcomes

  "5 Most Shocking Moments in Sci-Fi Movies" by Rick Yancey, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• The Visitors reported by contactees, abductees, and other witnesses may, in fact, be a highly advanced amphibian or reptilian culture from an extraterrestrial world, who evolved into the dominant species on their planet millions of years ago and who have interacted in Earth's evolution as explorers, observers, caretakers, and genetic engineers.

  Brad Steiger

  Years, Culture, World

  Brad Steiger, Sherry Hansen Steiger (2011). “Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds”, p.67, Visible Ink Press

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• There are a lot of things being put out to let people know. Even in the last 25 years, all these extraterrestrial movies are to let people know that we're definitely not alone, and there's going to come a time when they're going to go, "Here it is, here's what other people have been seeing, people have been getting abducted and stuff."

  Afrika Bambaataa

  People, Not Alone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's recognized he's gone through R'lyeh, the Sunken City of R'lyeh, and then Cthulhu, the extraterrestrial, calls his band of worshippers home to recognize him as the anti-christ. This is all in The Necronomicon, something Lovecraft actually did make up.

  Paul Laffoley

  Home, Cities, Space

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

  David Duchovny

  Believe, Conspiracy, Existence

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• I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Army, Examination, Study

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• We have never denied that it is possible, indeed probable, that other forms of life, even intelligent life, exist in the universe. But this is different from the belief that we are now being visited by extraterrestrial beings in spacecraft, that they are abducting people, and the there is a vast government cover-up.

  Paul Kurtz

  Intelligent, Government, People

  Paul Kurtz “Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm”, Transaction Publishers

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• I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth.

  Gordon Cooper

  Believe, Earth, Littles

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• If we can no longer believe in heavenly hierarchies, extraterrestrial hierarchies will suffice.

  Brad Steiger

  Believe, Hierarchy, Heavenly

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• We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Order, Alarms

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• There is no doubt in my mind, after 37 years of study and investigation that the evidence is overwhelming that planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles whose origin is extraterrestrial. There are no acceptable arguments against flying saucer reality, only people who either haven't studied the relevant data or have a strong will not to believe that Earth is at the bottom of the heap sociologically and technologically in our local galactic neighborhood.

  Stanton T. Friedman

  Strong, Believe, Reality

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• It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Believe, Special, Performances

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• Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently controlled vehicles whose origin is outside our solar system. All the arguments against the extraterrestrial origin seem to be based upon false reasoning, misrepresentation of evidence, neglect of relevant information, ignorance of relevant technology, or pseudo sophisticated assumptions about alien appearance, motivation, or government secrecy...

  Stanton T. Friedman

  Motivation, Ignorance, Technology

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• There are more than 100 first- and second- hand witnesses to the retrieval of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and at least four extraterrestrial bodies from a crash which occurred in July, 1947, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, New Mexico; written and videotaped testimony from several first-hand witnesses who are respected military officers have been obtained.

  Steven M. Greer

  Military, July, Hands

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• What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Blue, Civilization

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• We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.

  Don DeLillo

  Independent, Intelligent, Reality

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• With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Race, Air, People

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• In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Thinking, Air, People

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• Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Government, People

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