"Exobiology - a curious development in view of the fact that this "science" has yet to demonstrate that its subject matter exists!"

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“Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.”

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“It is another aphorism that no ones knows everything about anything. That need not dull the pleasure and fascination of the fact that a great deal is known about some things.”

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