Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet." "Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?" "My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over." "These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north." "Time is still the great mystery to us. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness." "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." "Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose." "It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space." "It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. "And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe." "Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?" "If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology." "It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty.
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