If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
Arthur C. ClarkeSpace can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.
Arthur C. ClarkeThe fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.
Arthur C. Clarke