Alien Civilization Quotes

“Ironically, not realizing it was humanity’s strong belief in mythical fairytales that fostered a patriarchal society and all the other galactic civilizations' strong belief in science and biological facts, which encouraged matriarchies.”
― Alma Nilsson, Married to My Midsummer Alien

“In other words, what were the chances that ours is the only civilization ever? Putting in the exoplanet data, we found the answer to be 10 –22 , or one in ten billion trillion.

We called this number the “pessimism line"

To understand how to think about the pessimism line, imagine you were handed a very big bag of Goldilocks-zone planets.

Our results say the only way human beings are unique as a civilization-building species would be if you pulled out ten billion trillion planets and not one of them had a civilization.

That’s because Kepler has shown us that there must be ten billion trillion Goldilocks-zone planets in the universe.”
― Adam Frank, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth