It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.