“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”
“Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.”
“[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”
“Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.”
“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”