UFO QUOTES
quotations about UFOs
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The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. If they want to make contact, they would make contact; if not, they would save their energy and go elsewhere.
ISAAC ASIMOV, Is Anyone There?
The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.
JOHN A. KEEL, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse
I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?
STEPHEN HAWKING, TED talk, "Asking big questions about the universe"
One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE, New York Times, Jul. 27, 1975
It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors, and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky. If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists.
JIMMY CARTER, remark during 1976 Presidential campaign
Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.
RICHARD DAWKINS, The God Delusion
I have to argue about flying saucers on the beach with people, you know. And I was interested in this: they keep arguing that it is possible. And that's true. It is possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.
RICHARD FEYNMAN, The Meaning of It All
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
DOUGLAS ADAMS, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.... We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
STEPHEN HAWKING, Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
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