David Gerrold Quotes

With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique.

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.

I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens... I look up into the stars and I imagine: 'How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?'

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

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

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.

As far as whether there is life there on Mars or whether there was actually ever life there, I don't know. It would be great to find out, though.

While NASA talks about 'Are we alone?' as a number one question, they are putting zero money into searching for intelligent life. There's a big disconnect there.

In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

There must be other races out there, watching our tiny yellow sun glimmering in their unknown field of the sky. Do they desire us as we desire them?

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.

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

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.

There was a time when the government cut off funding to SETI, basically, and I thought it was something that should continue, and it was a very interesting scientific question.

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

You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you're a citizen of your own existence.

I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth.

No company is hiring anyone to search for messages from aliens. Most people don't seem to think there's much benefit to it. The lack of interest is, I think, because most people don't realize what even a simple detection would really mean.

It would seem staggeringly arrogant to think we were the only ones in the universe, but at the same time, I don't know if contact has been made yet or not because you think something like that would be hard to cover up. I'm still on the fence. I keep an open mind about all of these things.

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.

And as I have always said, the only thing more scary than knowing we are not alone in the universe is knowing we are alone in the universe.

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

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.