Seth Shostak Instance Quotations

Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond.

The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes.