They have all let me do what I delt I needed to do, Anfew thought, even when they privately disagreed with it. THey have granted me my wishes — out o… - Isaac Asimov

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

If it's the product of nonhuman minds and hands, what may seem primitive may, in actual fact, be merely nonhuman.

Ideally there should be no detectable connection between any two Observers, so that the loss of one would not entail the loss of any other.