Must Faith Be Exactly That, The Willingness

Without Consciousness And Intelligence, The Universe Would Lack Meaning.

I'm Just A Propagandist And A Propagandist Doesn't Have To Know What He Is Talking About, Just So He Talks About It Most Convincingly.

There Is A Plan, It Seems To Me, That Reaches Out Of The Electron To The Rim Of The Universe And What This Plan May Be Or How It Came About Is Beyond My Feeble Intellect. But If We Are Looking For Something On Which To Pin Our Faith- And, Indeed, Our Hope- The Plan Might Well Be It. I Think We Have Thought Too Small And Have Been Too Afraid.

My Reluctance To Use Alien Invasion Is Due To The Feeling That We Are Not Likely To Be Invaded And Taken Over. 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. Further Than This, There Should Be No Economic Necessity Of Its Doing So. By The Time It Was Able To Go Into Deep Space, It Must Have Arrived At An Energy Source Which Would Not Be Based On Planetary Natural Resources.

These Are The Stories The Dogs Tell, When The Fires Burn High And The Wind Is From The North.