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Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

- Clifford D. Simak
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It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.

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.

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.

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.

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 a million years?

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.

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.

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Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.