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It is my craft and my science to Watch. It is yours to jeer. Each of us to our specialty.

— Robert Silverberg Nightwings (1968)

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Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured.

Up the Line (1969)

Beauty is a magnet: repels some, attracts many, leaves no one unmoved.

Capricorn Games (1974)

She shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood.

Thorns (1967)

Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power.

Thomas the Proclaimer (1972)

Take this as a bit of easy wisdom: people who try to rule over other people are going to be hated.

The Gate of Worlds (1967)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

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Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

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