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My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species. Further than this, there should be no economic necessity of its doing so. By the time it was able to go into deep space, it must have arrived at an energy source which would not be based on planetary natural resources.

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We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or …

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There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond…

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Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

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Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

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Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

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I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.

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These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

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If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the …

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