"An infinity of universes swim in superspace, all passing through their own cycles of birth and death; some are novel, others repetitious; some produce macrolife, others do not; still others are lifeless. In time, macrolife will attempt to reach out from its cycles to other space-time bubbles, perhaps even to past cycles, which leave their echoes in superspace, and might be reached. In all these ambitions, only the ultimate pattern of development is unknown, drawing macrolife toward some future transformation still beyond its view. There are times when the oldest macrolife senses that vaster intelligences are peering in at it from some great beyond [...]" (George Zebrowski, "Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia", 1979)
"Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world." (George Zebrowski, "Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia", 1979)
"Part of human life is the need to reassure ourselves about the future that we may never live to see, rather than fool ourselves, as many did in the last century, that there won’t be any future and they might as well lie down and die." (George Zebrowski, "Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia", 1979)
"Picture this: a mobile space colony, supporting more than a million people. No, not a colony, but an organism which can move and grow as long as it can obtain resources and maintain a food supply within its ecology. It’s a living organism because it can respond to stimuli through its optical and sensory nervous system. It thinks with the intellects of its human and cybernetic intelligences. And it can reproduce, which is what we expect from a living organism." (George Zebrowski, "Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia", 1979)
"Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important." (George Zebrowski, "Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia", 1979)
"She reached out across the cathedral of space-time to those hopelessly distant candle-furnaces, where all the material elements had been forged again and again inside the generation of suns, where alien sunspaces were certain to contain other humanities, however different, and she wondered if someone there might be her friend." (George Zebrowski, "Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia", 1979)
"In a perfectly rational universe, infinities turn back on themselves [...]" (George Zebrowski, "Is Science Rational?", OMNI Magazine, 1994)
"The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread." (George Zebrowski, "Is Science Rational?", OMNI Magazine, 1994)
"Time is a relationship that we have with the rest of the universe; or more accurately, we are one of the clocks, measuring one kind of time." (George Zebrowski, OMNI Magazine, 1994)
"Science, when it runs up against infinities, seeks to eliminate them, because a proliferation of entities is the enemy of explanation." (George Zebrowski, "Time Is Nothing But A Clock" , OMNI Magazine Vol. 17 (1), 1994)
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