Dean Haglund Quotes

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

It would be selfish to believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe.

Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.

How can the human race be, like, the only living form in the universe? There have to be other life forms out there. I believe it.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast distances.

It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.

As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.

I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.

It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.

I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.

Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had ever been detected. Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we're not entirely alone in this vast, cold cosmos.