Why should we become like you? We pride ourselves on not being like you. - Robert Silverberg

Now, you know I’m no bigot, Lorie. I don’t care how many eyes, tentacles, eating orifices, or antennae an organism happens to have, so long as it knows its stuff. What I object to is having someone who is professionally inferior jacked into an expedition simply for the sake of racial balance.

But, though he trusted his intuitive judgments, he rarely acted on them until he had had time to make a more rational reconnaissance.

The thing about aliens is that they tend to be so alien.