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To cover up actual lack of knowledge, the tale develops an explanation which amounts to divine intervention. It is an easy and, to the primitive mind, a plausible and satisfactory way to explain something of which nothing at all is known.

— Clifford D. Simak City (1952)

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

City (1952)

There was so much knowledge in the galaxy and he knew so little of it, understood so little of the little that he knew.

Way Station (1963)

The wolf was smiling at him, and he had never known that a wolf could smile.

Highway of Eternity (1986)

How strange it is, he thought, how so many senseless things shape our destiny.

Way Station (1963)

He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand.

Way Station (1963)

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