Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Aliens

Quotes about: Aliens

• I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Earth, Examination

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Aliens Might Find Humans Too Stupid To Contact" By Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.

• Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent. But in the eyes of an alien coming here who has the technology to make it here, they might observe us and conclude that there's no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Eye, Intelligent, Technology

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'". "Here and Now" with Jeremy Hobson, kuow.org. March 6, 2014.

• Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Cosmos, Might, Energy

• Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Earth, Aliens

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson: ‘We Don’t Know What’s Driving 96% Of The Universe’". Interview with Cara Santa Maria, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

• If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, Land, Leader

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

• If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Energy

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2011

• FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all about our TV programs (probably a bad thing), will hear all our FM music (probably a good thing), and know nothing of the politics of AM talk-show hosts (probably a safe thing).

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Civilization, Space

• In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Years, Identity

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company

• My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Civilization, Listening

• I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all species of Earth life than any two species of Earth life are from each other.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Earth Life, Two, Different

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.306, W. W. Norton & Company

• Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Earth, Matter, Aliens

• They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Light, Air

• If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sound, Example, Would Be

• For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They would now be looking elsewhere. A more humbling possibility would be if aliens had become aware of the technologically proficient species that now inhabits Earth, yet they had drawn the same conclusion.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Would Be, Done

• What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Years, Fool

  Twitter post from Nov 04, 2013

• I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Civilization, Dumb, Aliens

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, kuow.org. March 6, 2014.

• After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Television, Aliens

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.242, W. W. Norton & Company

• I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Alien Life, Aliens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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