Martian Quotes
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Digging deep in a Martian desertmen discovered an enormous brain.It suddenly started to think at them —So they covered it up again...
brian aldiss— "The Deceptive Truth", The Dark Sun Rises (2002)
ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.
michael— Robert A. Heinlein, first lines of the "uncut edition" of Stranger in a Strange Land (1991), about a human born on Mars, who is eventually revealed to be the archangel Michael.
If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the common expression of a universal phenomenon, then we could finally ask the truly fundamental question raised by the prospect of Martian fossils. If life originates as a general property of the material universe under certain conditions (probably often realized), then how much can the basic structure and constitution of life vary from place to independent place?
stephen jay gould— "War of the Worldviews", p. 352
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
russell crowe— Russell Crowe, New York Daily News (2000)[ ]
"Perhaps a man hitched to the cart of a Martian or roasted on the spit by inhabitants of the Milky Way will recall the veal cutlet he used to slice on his dinner plate and apologize (belatedly) to the cow."
Milan Kundera— From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
russell crowe— New York Daily News (2000)
Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs, and the brain built of neurons in the only example we know - may evolve frequently. But if only one origin of life in a million ever leads to consciousness, then Martian bacteria most emphatically do not imply Little Green Men.)
stephen jay gould— "War of the Worldviews", p. 351
