We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed.

I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.