Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. - Clifford D. Simak

And I think he actually believes the best way to do it is to gain a dictatorship over the Solar System. That ambition rules everything in his life. It has hardened him and strengthened him. He will crush ruthlessly, without a single qualm, anything that stands in his path. That’s why we’ll have a fight on our hands.

Jenkins tried to say goodbye, but he could not say goodbye. If he could only weep, he thought, but robots could not weep.

And that day the cultural god of science had shone a bit less brightly, had died a little in the people's minds.