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…

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It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty....

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty....

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine -...

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine -...

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must...

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must...

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied...

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied...

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept;...

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept;...

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space...

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space...

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not...

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not...

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

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

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of...

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of...

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth,...

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth,...

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew....

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew....

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day,...

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day,...

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the...

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the...

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human...

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human...

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which...

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which...