Marine biologist Quote by Sy Montgomery

“You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments.”

— Steven Magee

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

— Leonard Nimoy

“(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it…

— Northrop Frye

“Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.”

— Gregory Benford

Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless…

— Steve Allen

“As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. For you and I belong…

— Steven Pinker

“Very few animals on earth have the ability to think cogent thoughts to begin with, but we humans have the luxury of being able…

— Mark Manson

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one…

— Benjamin Franklin

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast…

— Anonymous

“It is very difficult to predict what other humans will do, and considerably more difficult to anticipate the behaviour of aliens.”

— James Cambias

“We were fortunate his brief psychic vision distracted him from what his fingertips could have told him about my face. Of course we were…

— Dean Koontz

“In the frame of a known phenomenon of life, a human could be defined as the only proven thinking creature.”

— Eraldo Banovac