In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.
Arthur C. Clarke'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.
Arthur C. ClarkeYou can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
Arthur C. Clarke