Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. - Arthur C. Clarke

There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through the fierce moments of their inconceivable metamorphosis, as the food stored in a grain of wheat feeds the infant plant while it climbs towards the Sun.

God was just this black void that we cried into.

Though I've often made fun of the scientists, they've freed us forever from the stagnation that was overtaking your race.