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I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

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One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white stars as Vega a...more

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The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

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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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Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barel...more

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For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the pool of individu...more

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The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its...more

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Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent...more