“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.”

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.”

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”

“But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligent and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn...Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love...Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.”

“If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the entire universe.”