Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.

The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality . . . the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.