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"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

"Imagine a moonlit darkness in which their adversaries lay senseless, strewn across the landscape in stupors of sleep."

"The primates are so rich in potential that even a small change in anatomy or physiology may provide an aperture to a universe never dreamt of in the rude sleeping pallets made each night in the low branches of the once-vast tropical forests."

"The young are so ready to learn who to love and who to hate...But humans are not rats...The strategy of long childhoods and early learning introduces a new element: culture," (199).

"Death serves as a poignant reminder of our own limitations and frailties—and of the bond with our ancestors who, in a way, died that we might live," (152).

"It will be enough if a few salient and generic characteristics of life on yet another obscure planet are noted for the cavernous recesses of the galactic archives," (139).