Intelligent Life Quotes

• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

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• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Intelligent, Space

  IRC discussion with Gentry Lee at Sci Fi Channel, November 1, 1996.

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• My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

  Kid Koala

  Kids, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

  Albert Einstein

  Intelligent, Earth, Planets

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• We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

  Stephen Hawking

  Funny, Science, Intelligent

  "Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens". news.bbc.co.uk. April 25, 2010.

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• Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Life, Humor

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Intelligent, Space, Proof

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• Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?

  Lily Tomlin

  Intelligent, Missing, Form

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• Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth's resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth's people can we truly say that there is intelligent life on Earth.

  Jacque Fresco

  Intelligent, Technology, People

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• Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

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• Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Earth, Aliens

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson: ‘We Don’t Know What’s Driving 96% Of The Universe’". Interview with Cara Santa Maria, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Many questions remain in the UFO controversy. Scientists ask how interstellar pilots could survive a trip of hundreds of years while cutting-edge physicists offer speculation of deep space wormholes and the use of zero point energy. For now, we could not do any better than to study MAJIC EYES ONLY and read the accounts of UFO crash retrievals and ponder what a reality that includes diverse intelligent life outside of our planet might mean for us and future generations.

  Jim Marrs

  Zero, Mean, Eye

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• I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

  Bill Watterson

  Reading, Thinking, Intelligent

  Calvin and Hobbes (comic strip), 8 Nov. 1989

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• Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Intelligent, Space, Forever

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• I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

  Sylvia Earle

  Motivation, Ocean, Inspiration

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• The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

  Paul MacCready

  Intelligent, Technology, Earth

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• There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

  Shakti Gawain

  Intelligent, Knowing, Intuition

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.279, Mango Media Inc.

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• I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.

  Dan Simmons

  Cancer, Intelligent, Cells

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1086, Spectra

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• It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

  P. D. James

  Stars, Intelligent, Credit

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.14, Vintage

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• I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Intelligent, Long, Long Time

  "Meeting of the Minds: Buzz Aldrin Visits Arthur C. Clarke". Andrew Chaikin, Space Illustrated Magazine, February 27, 2001.

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• If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

  Seth Shostak

  Intelligent, Would Be, Unusual

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• 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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• The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.

  Yuri Milner

  Life, Intelligent, World

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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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• In fact, one of the arguments for searching for intelligent life in space, elsewhere, is that we have no evidence that intelligence has any survival value. The most successful creatures on this planet are the cockroaches. They've been around, what is it, 100 million years or so and I suspect they'll still be there 100 million years in the future. Maybe intelligence is an evolutionary aberration which dooms its possessors in the way armor may have doomed some of the dinosaurs.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Successful, Intelligent, Survival

  Source: www.salon.com

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