Do Aliens exist? What we know so far – Times of India
The word alien comes from the Latin word 'aliēnus', which means "not one's own, of others, foreign, strange". It is derived from the Latin word alius, which means "other". The concept of aliens has been around for a long time with each school of philosophy having different views on them. The very first speculations about a life existing beyond the Earth can be found in the discussions amongst Epicurean philosophers in ancient Greece and their Roman disciples. In his book De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), Roman Epicurean poet Lucretius writes, "Nothing in the universe is unique and alone and therefore in other regions there must be other earth's inhabited by different tribes of men and breeds of beasts.”Then enter Nicholas of Cuss, a German philosopher, theologian and cardinal, who...