Finding intelligent life would encourage people and also of course the opportunity of learning a tremendous amount, but this is a danger. We might be so overwhelmed with knowledge and information, that we might be depressed or even become suicidal - because what's the point if they're thousands of years ahead of us? Why should we bother? - or become the ultimate couch potatoes.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy.

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.