Now, the Sun is by no means an old star, and its planets are mere children in cosmic age, so it seems likely that there are billions of planets in the universe not only where intelligent life is on a lower scale than man but other billions where it is approximately equal and others still where it is hundreds of thousands of millions of years in advance of us.
Sunce je stara zvijezda, a njezini planeti su samo djeca po kozmičkim godinama, pa se čini mogućim da postoje milijarde planeta u svemiru ne samo gdje je inteligencija niža od čovjekove, nego onih gdje je i jednaka, pa i oni gdje gdje je ona milijunima godina ispred nas.