The Chain Of Life Runs Smoothly From

We Came Into A Homeless Frontier, A Place Where We Were Not Welcome, Where Nothing That Lived Was Welcome, Where Thought And Logic Were Abhorrent And We Were Frightened, But We Went Into This Place Because The Universe Lay Before Us, And If We Were To Know Ourselves, We Must Know The Universe

There Is A Plan, It Seems To Me, That Reaches Out Of The Electron To The Rim Of The Universe And What This Plan May Be Or How It Came About Is Beyond My Feeble Intellect. But If We Are Looking For Something On Which To Pin Our Faith- And, Indeed, Our Hope- The Plan Might Well Be It. I Think We Have Thought Too Small And Have Been Too Afraid.

I Did Not Want To Move. For I Had The Feeling That This Was A Place, Once Seen, That Could Not Be Seen Again. If I Left And Then Came Back, It Would Not Be The Same; No Matter How Many Times I Might Return To This Particular Spot The Place And Feeling Would Never Be The Same, Something Would Be Lost Or Something Would Be Added, And There Never Would Exist Again, Through All Eternity, All The Integrated Factors That Made It What It Was In This Magic Moment.

And Time Itself? Time Was A Never-ending Medium That Stretched Into The Future And The Past - Except There Was No Future And No Past, But An Infinite Number Of Brackets, Extending Either Way, Each Bracket Enclosing Its Single Phase Of The Universe.

I Have Tried At Times To Place Humans In Perspective Against The Vastness Of Universal Time And Space. I Have Been Concerned With Where We, As A Race, May Be Going And What May Be Our Purpose In The Universal Scheme — If We Have A Purpose. In General, I Believe We Do, And Perhaps An Important One.