Advantage Quote by Paul Davies

“There are so many examples of human misuse of the Earth that even phrasing this question chills me. If there is life on Mars,…

— Carl Sagan

If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even if they…

— Carl Sagan

The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and…

— Buzz Aldrin

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is…

— Paul Davies

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It…

— Tommy Lee Jones

We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside…

— Paul Davies

Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had ever been…

— Nick Bostrom

Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that could be…

— David Grinspoon

I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know…

— Richard E. Berendzen

Mars would seem, to me, to be the best place to focus our collective effort as a species... I think people would like to…

— James Ransone

Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the…

— Seth Shostak

A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent…

— Seth Shostak