Stephen Hawking Quotes About Aliens
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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
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The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
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I think computer viruses should count as life.
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If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.
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I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.
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To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.
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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
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Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.
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If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldnt want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach.
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One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
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The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.
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If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
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If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here - we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not - but this is more or less what is happening with AI.
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Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up
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There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.
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I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
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