"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." "Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not.… - Arthur C. Clarke

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Suppose, in their altruistic passion for justice and order, they had determined to reform the world, but had not realized that they were destroying the soul of man?

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation ... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.

If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.