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

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time , while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.

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