Making Contact Quotes

“Albert Einstein said: “Still there are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable: Life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only being.”10”
― Alan Steinfeld, Making Contact: Preparing for the New Realities of Extraterrestrial Existence

“Perhaps the unique isolation each human feels and the peculiar melancholy a dark sky filled with stars can evoke have something to do with knowledge buried in our genes and souls from recycled lives, a sensing of ancient intimacies with other beings and other worlds.”
― Alan Steinfeld, Making Contact: Preparing for the New Realities of Extraterrestrial Existence

“politics of ontology.”
― Alan Steinfeld, Making Contact: Preparing for the New Realities of Extraterrestrial Existence