We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.
Quotes about extraterrestrial (8 Quotes)
This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
'I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us,' Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, 'and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star.'That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
When we would walk into parties ... I might as well have been the woodwork. I found it fascinating to watch how people fawn over Nicole's ethereal, extraterrestrial beauty.
Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.