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ShareThe fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life — much less intelligence — beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be … Continue reading

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ShareI think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it’s written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does … Continue reading

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ShareIt is World War II and Madge Arwell is trying to hide from her children the awful news that their father, a British bombing pilot, was lost over the Channel during a bombing mission. It is Christmas Eve and she … Continue reading

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ShareThere is a difference between crime and rebellion, as there is a difference between sin and denouncing the concept of morality. Saying let he who is without sin caste the first stone is not the same as approving adultery. –Jerry … Continue reading

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Share“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” –Muhammad Ali

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ShareSulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of thinking are intolerable in this science. –Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, regarding theology

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ShareWith insufficient data it is easy to go wrong. –Carl Sagan

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Share“If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run – and often in the short one – the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.” –Arthur C. Clarke

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ShareWe contrast the urban and the natural, but that’s a contemporary myth. We’re animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as “natural” (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much … Continue reading

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ShareEverybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what? –William Saroyan, to the Associated Press in 1981, five days before he died of cancer

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