Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?

The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.