Lyndon Johnson
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man.
James HughesTranshumanism—the proposition that human beings should use technology to transcend the limitations of the body and brain—is a product of the Enlightenment humanist tradition. As a consequence most avowed transhumanists are secular, and many religious are skeptical or hostile towards the transhumanist project. However there are also many religious transhumanists who find the project of human enhancement at least consistent with, and sometimes a fulfillment of, their metaphysics, soteriologies and eschatologies.
Arthur EddingtonWe have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made this footprint. And lo! It is our own.
James N. GardnerFreeman Dyson has famously written that the idea of sufficiently evolved mind is indistinguishable from the idea of the mind of God.