I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time. (relevantmagazine.com)
If you were God, would you make this big complex universe, then only focus on only one species on one tiny tiny planet way off on the edge of the immense universe, constantly inflicting them with disasters and disease and evil and war, just to see who obeys you based on your random, occasional help of some of them? (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Taking a bleaker turn that reflects his times, Churchill adds: «I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time.» (scientificamerican.com)