If the means were available... by Clifford D. Simak, an American Writer

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“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.”

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Clifford D. Simak

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Name: Clifford D. Simak

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Aug 3, 1904

Date of Death: Apr 25, 1988

Profession: Writer

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My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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