Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.

I actually think the chances that we'll find E.T. are pretty good.

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.

There's so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It's always in the news.

The book that blew the doors off the house, grabbing me with its breathtakingly deep and irresistible view of the universe and our relation to it, was 'Intelligent Life in the Universe' by I. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan. I recall an enchanting all-nighter completing a college homework assignment to read the first chapter.

I believe movies are showing us what we already know with aliens especially, so when we do get to meet them it's not a big shock.

Galactic plankton is undoubtedly out there, but it's statistically highly likely there's also another intelligent civilisation out there somewhere. Unfortunately, the distances and time differences are so great, communication might remain impossible.

I think obviously there is some kind of life form somewhere else. Whether it looks like the creature in 'Alien Autopsy,' I'm not sure.

Ultimately, what we're looking for in the long run is to find other Earth-like planets.

Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.

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.

We're going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system.

The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you still count poor Pluto) in our solar system, but until that year, when two astronomers detected faint, telltale radio signals in the constellation Virgo, we had no hard evidence of their existence.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies.

I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens.

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

To me, it's the kind of interesting question the human race should be investing in. Is there intelligent life out there? Are there other beings out there?

Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question... because of the investments we're making in space technology.

Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe.

A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.

Life outside of Earth is probably going to be really hard to find.