Daystrom Institute Technical Library

"They've left us behind, Picard! They're generations beyond us!"

"In one sense, yes, but in another, as you said, they are children. And until now, the only teachers that they've had are a couple of hermits, and the fear of extermination. But fear is an incompetent teacher. Yes, they have life. But no one is teaching them what it's for. To be alive is a responsibility, as well as a right."

"How are they supposed to learn that lesson in six minutes, and eleven seconds?"

"The way that children learn most things, by example."