Aliens Quotes - Page 7

• Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent. But in the eyes of an alien coming here who has the technology to make it here, they might observe us and conclude that there's no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Eye, Intelligent, Technology

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'". "Here and Now" with Jeremy Hobson, kuow.org. March 6, 2014.

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• What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Years, Fool

  Twitter post from Nov 04, 2013

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• I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Civilization, Dumb, Granted

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, kuow.org. March 6, 2014.

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• One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

  Jim Lee

  Real, Artist, Looks

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• People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Spain, Stories

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• Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.

  Rick Astley

  Thinking, Self, Flesh

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood continues to present the US army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

  Hideo Kojima

  Army, Guy, Hollywood

  "Hideo Kojima: 'Metal Gear questions US dominance of the world'". Interview with Simon Parkin, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

  K'naan

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

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• They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Light, Air

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• If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sound, Example, Would Be

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• For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They would now be looking elsewhere. A more humbling possibility would be if aliens had become aware of the technologically proficient species that now inhabits Earth, yet they had drawn the same conclusion.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Would Be, Done

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• FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all about our TV programs (probably a bad thing), will hear all our FM music (probably a good thing), and know nothing of the politics of AM talk-show hosts (probably a safe thing).

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Civilization, Space

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• In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Years, Identity

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Civilization, Listening

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• I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all species of Earth life than any two species of Earth life are from each other.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Earth Life, Two, Different

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.306, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Earth, Matter, Flew

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• Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements gang up behind or beneath the ego's awareness and immerse it in a waking dream of something Other, an alien world-order similar to ancient irrationalist cultures (in transition from primitivism to civilized mythos-culture).

  Kenny Smith

  Dream, Writing, Order

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• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Trying, Viruses, Earth

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• For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way that solitude itself becomes an emblem, a defining trait for walkers, sporadic at best, who in my opinion should be irrevocably lost or absorbed in thought, and a bit confused, too, as when one walks through a space that's at once alien and familiar.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Confused, Space, Solitude

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• Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Church, Aristocracy, Population

  'Hansard' 16 February 1844

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• All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave ... while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics.... Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay.

  Ann Coulter

  Order, Scary, Spy

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• Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

  Herman Melville

  Elements, May, Digestion

  Herman Melville (2006). “Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)”, p.137, Penguin

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• The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

  Mason Cooley

  Reading, Privacy

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• In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mean, Science, Technology

  "Orson Scott Card talks Ender's game in rare interview". Interview with Shane Snow, www.wired.com. October 31, 2013.

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• My sleeping pill is white.
  It is a splendid pearl;
  it floats me out of myself,
  my stung skin as alien
  as a loose bolt of cloth.

  Anne Sexton

  Sleep, White, Skins

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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