A fine intention. But until we make the technology, we are still, after all, only mortal.
"Had we but world enough and time
But we don't
So let's get on with it."
-- Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress" (abridged)
Your original quote asserts a definite fate, not a fate which would occur if some particular technology were to remain uninvented.
That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die
-- H. P. Lovecraft
This is our monthly thread for collecting these little gems and pearls of wisdom, rationality-related quotes you've seen recently, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages, and which might be handy to link to in one of our discussions.