“We have been clever, and on occasion we have been foolish. For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid. But it was cleverness that brought us to this point, and it is only cleverness that will serve us from now on.
We have no time for anything else.”

Source: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), Epilogue (p. 562; closing words)

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British novelist and astronomer 1966

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