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“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
“He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.”
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
“Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.”
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
“You hide a Sun-powered device in darkness—only if you want to know when it is brought out into the light. In other words, the monolith may be some kind of alarm. And we have triggered it.”
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
“They saw how often the first faint sparks
of intelligence flickered and died in the cosmic night.
And because, in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere.”
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of intelligence flickered and died in the cosmic night.
And because, in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere.”
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