我们真的是小生物。微小而害怕，试图将我们的位置保留在我们地球的小平台上。因此，尽管关于我们的世界似乎是如此坚实，如此永久，但并非如此。无论我们有多么自信，我们都处于机会的束缚，我们都会享受人类脆弱的人质。
(We were tiny creatures, really; tiny and afraid, trying to hold our place on the little platform that was our earth. So while the world about us might seem so solid, so permanent, it was not really. We were all at the mercy of chance, no matter how confident we felt, hostages to our own human frailty.)