“Those planets we have observed, first, with the naked eye… and later… with instruments… were not merely transformed by our observations… a new order of existence arose in which they and we directly co-participated. They might as well have been born in a second simultaneous universe… that is the sum of creatures, and, particularly humans, in whose minds they came to exist. By whose eyes they came to be seen. And by whose machines they came to be measured. The very orders of existence to which they belong were multiplied… possibly in a variety of ways we cannot yet bring ourselves to imagine. As, of course, are we.”

— an intelligence agent