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112 pages, Paperback
First published November 24, 1986
"Our increments of reliable knowledge, proved through concrete application, are unquestionable. In science, we know more than our nineteenth-century predecessors; they, in turn, knew more than their forefathers -- but at the same time we recognize the world's inexhaustibility, the fathomlessness of its secrets, for we see that each atom, each 'elementary particle,' turns out to be a bottomless well. It is this astounding bottomlessness of knowledge... that renders every 'ultimate view of reality' suspect. It may be that the principium creationis per destructionem will prove to be but a phase of our diagnosis that applies the human measure to a thing as inhuman as the Universe. It may be that someday a deus ex machine will cope with these inhuman, overcomplicated measurements, inaccessible to our poor animal brains..."("The World as Cataclysm")
"Her kelimesi gerçek olan çarpıcı bir düşünceyi gizlemenin en kolay yolu onu bilimkurgu kılığında yayımlamaktı. Tıpkı bir yığın kırık camın arasındaki elmasın ayırt edilemeyeceği gibi, bilimkurgu safsatalarının içine kondurulmuş bir ifşaat da onların rengine bürünerek tehlikeli olmaktan çıkacaktı."