“The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.” EarthTalkingWalkingInsaneEvolveProbabilitySlim Author:Kesha
“A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies - and this is the accepted view of its origin - it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation.” IfsKnowsFirstsDoeBodyWould BeEarthProcessSpaceViewsEvidenceCapacityFairsImportanceAcceptedSeparationProbability Book:The Nikola Tesla Treasury Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury
“The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, among millions of lineages of organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence; this makes me believe in its utter improbability.” WorldBelieveDifferentEarthMillionsIssuesEventsEvolutionCivilizationBillionsAstronomyDevelopingOrganismsProbabilityLineageImprobabilitySaganSpeciation Author:Ernst Mayr