The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.