A Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Aliens Clocks Fool More Say Shift Sunlight Themselves Thinking Twice Would Year

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American - Scientist
Born: October 5, 1958

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.

Kurt Vonnegut

Do we know what practices would be effective in resisting aliens? Wouldn't the public have to be convinced, in all countries, that there is such a threat? When have the major nations on this planet shown they can agree on any military course of action? Earthlings are already spending a trillion dollars a year on things military. Where would the money come from? Krugman seems to be suggesting more lies are what is needed. How about everybody cutting their military budgets in half and feeding people instead?

Stanton T. Friedman

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

Tammara Webber

Some people would say we're already under attack by aliens - not space aliens, but illegal aliens.

Rush Limbaugh

Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

John Zakour

You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.

George Lincoln Rockwell

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it's a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the movie, American boys feel themselves like aliens here or they feel like Russians are aliens. There's misunderstanding or miscommunication. Then when the real aliens appear, together they have to fight to survive.

Timur Bekmambetov

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.

Marquis de Sade

You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.

David Foster Wallace

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

Buzz Aldrin

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Human beings are Earthlings and as Earthlings are connected to every other living being on this planet.

Sharon Gannon

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.