“[The Homo sapiens] has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever.” – Ernest Becker
“Once such superhumans appear, there will be significant political problems with unimproved humans, who won’t be able to compete.” ... “Presumably, they will die out, or become unimportant. Instead, there will be a race of self-designing beings who are improving at an ever-increasing rate.” – Stephen Hawking