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The race moves on. It has its human limitations. The tools we make have no limitations at all. When we educate ourselves to learn to handle those tools most efficiently we can go on to the next step, whatever it may be. Meanwhile there must be check and balance—rigid control.

— Henry Kuttner The Time Axis (1949)

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When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

Stephen Court in The Creature from Beyond Infinity (1940)

I never understood the ultimate answer. That was beyond me.

The Time Axis (1949)

Love is a false synonym for propagation, as the soul is a wish fulfillment creation growing out of self-preservation.

No Boundaries (1955)

A casual eye might have seen nothing extraordinary in Wade as he moved lithely across the meadow toward the Thunderbug.

People seem to like new things—if they weren’t too new, if they didn’t seem to point the way to Change.

Bypass to Otherness (1961)

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