I think you look on death as your friend," she murmured. "That is a strange friend for a young man to have." "The only faithful friend in this world,… - Poul Anderson

Peace," he added, "is kept by the good will and strength of the peaceful.

You were right. We should never have created science. It brought the twilight of the race."
"I never said that. The race brought its own destruction, through misuse of science. Our culture was scientific anyway, in all except its psychological basis. It's up to us to take that last and hardest step. If we do, the race may yet survive.

I have learned much in two thousand years, but nothing about any gods, except that they too, arise, change, age, and die. Whatever there is beyond the universe, if anything, I doubt it concerns itself with us.