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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

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Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

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But most of the time, with a contented resignation that comes normally to a man only at the end of a long and busy life, he sat before the keyboard an...more

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Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.

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This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To them, the only purpose of the Universe was the pr...more