Bonnie Hammer Quotes

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

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.

We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.

Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Theoretically, there are planets with an environment that can support life. As yet there is no evidence that there indeed is life on other planets. It's only a matter of time before we get to know.

Within the scientific community, there is healthy skepticism. And the question is, 'How do you ever get to a meaningful null result? How long and how hard do SETI scientists have to look for extraterrestrial intelligence and find nothing before they say, 'There is nothing. We are alone.'

The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.

For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special - it's some sort of miracle.

It's very exciting that people could actually live on another planet.

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

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

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.