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Synonyms for civilizations
civ·i·liza·tions

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  1. List of paraphrases for "civilizations":

    civilization, civilisations, civilized, cultures

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  1. Martin Rees:

    We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans, if you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced. A civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria.

  2. William Feather:

    One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

  3. Zaman Ali:

    Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”

  4. Christopher Conselice:

    Our new research suggests that searches for extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations not only reveals the existence of how life forms, but also gives us clues for how long our own civilization will last, if we find that intelligent life is common then this would reveal that our civilization could exist for much longer than a few hundred years, alternatively if we find that there are no active civilizations in our Galaxy it is a bad sign for our own long-term existence. By searching for extraterrestrial intelligent life — even if we find nothing — we are discovering our own future and fate.

  5. Author Unknown:

    Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both


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