Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Intelligent Life

Quotes about: Intelligent Life

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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