"Well, well, well, it's certainly a compelling, provocative, exciting, delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically, it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world"
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The “Well, well, well” frames the thought as a rediscovered trinket, a playful slow clap for the mind. Then he borrows authority with “smart people say,” a deliberately vague credential that signals humility and distance. He’s not the scientist; he’s the guy translating the scientist’s awe into cocktail-party electricity. The syntax spirals - “there must be… statistically… it could be likely… there could be…” - a stammering ladder of hedges that captures how most of us actually talk when we reach for the sublime. It’s excitement trying not to overpromise.
The subtext is modern faith without doctrine: we want the universe to be crowded because loneliness is a bleak cosmology. By invoking size and statistics, he taps a familiar pop-science comfort food - the idea that meaning can be smuggled in through probability. Contextually, it’s classic Goldblum: the actor as vibe engineer, selling wonder as a lived experience. He’s not asking you to believe in aliens so much as to enjoy believing you might.
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Goldblum, Jeff. (2026, February 16). Well, well, well, it's certainly a compelling, provocative, exciting, delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically, it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-well-well-its-certainly-a-compelling-145940/
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Goldblum, Jeff. "Well, well, well, it's certainly a compelling, provocative, exciting, delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically, it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-well-well-its-certainly-a-compelling-145940/.
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"Well, well, well, it's certainly a compelling, provocative, exciting, delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically, it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-well-well-its-certainly-a-compelling-145940/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.







