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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

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.