Extraterrestrial Quote by Carl Sagan

What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we…

— Carl Sagan

Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance…

— Seth Shostak

I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.

— Terence McKenna

Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

— John Battelle

In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as…

— Ray Bradbury

The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to…

— Dale Rex Coman

The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.

— Seth Shostak

We search for life on others planets and in other regions of our galaxy. Meanwhile we destroy and ignore the other life on this…

— Anthony D. Williams

“My conclusion is a startling one. I think it very likely—in fact inevitable—that biological intelligence is only a transitory phenomenon, a fleeting phase in…

— Paul Davies

"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and…

— Frank Drake

“I’m frequently asked, “Do you believe there’s extraterrestrial intelligence?” I give the standard arguments—there are a lot of places out there, the molecules of…

— Carl Sagan