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There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products o...more

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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forev...more

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In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-bestscience writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fictionwriter.[...more

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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

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How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.

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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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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossibl...more

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Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a ...more

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.""Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Bot...more

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Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the u...more

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Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

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1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is imposs...more

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This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger

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He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body ...more

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It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionall...more