Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.

There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

There'd been studies over the years supporting the proposition that groups composed exclusively of women usually made intelligent decisions, that exclusively male groups did a bit less well, and that mixed groups did most poorly of all, by a substantial margin. It appeared that, when women were present, testosterone got the upper hand and men took greater risks than they might otherwise. Correspondingly, women in the mixed group tended to revert to roles, becoming more passive, and going along with whatever misjudgment the males might perpetrate.

Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.