It is amazing how childishly gullible humans are. There are, for example, so many different religions – each claiming to have the truth, each saying that their truths are clearly superior to the truths of others — how can someone possibly take them seriously.
“God, Science, and Delusion: a chat with Arthur C. Clarke,” Free Inquiry 19, No 2, Spring 1999
There was nothing left of Earth … It has nourished them, through the fierce moments of their inconceivable metamorphosis, as the food stored in a grain of wheat feeds the infant plant while it climbs toward the Sun.
Childhood’s End, p. 213