He's pensioning us off, Greg!" yelled Donovan. "Do something about it. It's humiliating! - Isaac Asimov

Bliss had earlier maintained that in terraforming a planet, human beings would establish an unbalanced economy, which they would be able to keep from falling apart only by unending effort. For instance, no Settlers had ever brought with them any of the large predators. Small ones could not be helped. Insects, parasites — even small hawks, shrews, and so on. Those dramatic animals of legend and vague literary accounts — tigers, grizzly bears, orcs, crocodiles? Who would carry them from world to world even if there were sense to it? And where would there be sense to it? It meant that human beings were the only large predators, and it was up to them to cull those plants and animals that, left to themselves, would smother in their own overplenty. And if human beings somehow vanished, then other predators must take their place. But what predators? The most sizable predators tolerated by human beings were dogs and cats, tamed and living on human bounty.

people live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is.

the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself,