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“They would probably never even know that the human race existed. Such monumental indifference was worse than any deliberate insult. When”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

“The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don’t care about you. The next is the realization that this does not imply that life is meaningless, because people care about you, and vice versa.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“And anyone with a humanistic sensibility cares about you, not in the sense of feeling your pain—human empathy is too feeble to spread itself across billions of strangers—but in the sense of realizing that your existence is cosmically no less important than theirs, and that we all have a responsibility to use the laws of the universe to enhance the conditions in which we all can flourish.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“technology expert Kevin Kelly has proposed that “over time, if a technology persists long enough, its costs begin to approach (but never reach) zero.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress