"As science officer, I would advise restraint in ascribing motivation
to what are now simply unidentifiable energy bursts," Burnham states.

Pike confidently responds with a quote from Hamlet that
alludes to what can exist outside of what is directly explainable.

He also references one of the infamous laws from sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

But over the years, the meaning has shifted appropriately in the Trek universe to now say,
"Any advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God." - source