The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. - Philip José Farmer

First, humiliation, then humility, he would have said. And then comes humanity as a matter of course.

Yes, we hope to seed a new, rich earth.
We hope to breed a race of men whose power
Dwells in hearts as open as all Space
Itself, who ask for nothing but the light
That rinses the heart of hate so that the stars
Above will be below when man has Love.

Out of nothing I come, through a world populated by asses I pass, and into nothing I go.