We are born in ignorance, we die in ignorance, but maybe sometimes we learn something important and pass it along to others before we die. Or we writ… - Greg Bear

Some believe a superior being has guided humans. I see no compelling evidence for this. The human wish for guidance, for confirmation and external support, is an underlying theme in all they do and say, however. Very few stray far from this most fundamental of wishes: that they might have immortal and omniscient parents.

I explored new territory and described it. I did not create it. Don’t blame the conduit for the lightning.

We were innocent and did not know that the price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.