Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.
He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.
A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.