ET- Stone Biology

The reading the specialist was getting had never been covered in any of the manuals. But doctors are funny fellows; give them a few minutes with any outrage of life, and they’ll track it on their machinery, their calm somehow all-pervasive.

  “That’s odd . . .” was all one of them said, though it was exceedingly more than odd. Everything about the creature on the table before them was contradictory—parts of it like the quiet dreams of vegetables, and still other areas possessing the density of stone, low enough to paralyze the machines.

- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in His Adventure on Earth, chapter 15