Alien Quotes – Reflections on Life and the Universe

"In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth."

Fred Hoyle

"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower."

Alan Kay

"I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me."

Steven Spielberg

"The 'medical examination' allegedly undergone by abductees, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, recalls medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense within a sophisticated or technical framework: Any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess could achieve any of these purported scientific objectives in less time and with less risk."

Dr. Jacques Vallee

"The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used as an insane asylum by other planets."

George Bernard Shaw

"The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all."

Donald Pleasence

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein."

Fred Hoyle

"It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic soup ever existed on this planet. We may therefore with fairness call this scenario the myth of the pre-biotic soup."

Fred Hoyle

"The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation"

Terence McKenna

"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."

Elon Musk

"If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum."

Voltaire

"Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true."

Steven Spielberg

"Science fiction like Star Trek is not only good fun but it also serves a serious purpose, that of expanding the human imagination."

Stephen Hawking

"Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself."

Erich Fromm

"Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul."

Guy Consolmagno

"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory."

Edwin Conklin

"The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations. Let's stop calling it Artificial Intelligence and call it what it is: Plagiarism Software. It doesn’t create anything, just copies existing works from artists and alters them sufficiently to escape copyright laws. It's the largest theft of property since Native American lands by European settlers."

Noam Chomsky