Extraterrestrial 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.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Home

• In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Art
  • Waiting
  • Philosophy

• 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
  • Because
  • Encounter

• 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
  • Truth
  • Fashion
  • Skepticism

• Bigfoot may well be an extraterrestrial, because... remember Chewbacca?

  

  George Noory
  • Remember
  • Because
  • Extraterrestrial

• 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
  • Order
  • Psychedelic
  • Dimensions

• On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea. The mushroom itself is such a mercurial, elusive, Zen sort of personality that I never believe a word it says. I simply entertain its notions and try and sort through them, and I found that to be the most enriching approach to it.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Personality
  • Facts