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"“It isn’t reasonable!” insisted Holmes. “It doesn’t make sense!” “The question,” observed Burke, “isn’t whether it makes sense, but whether it’s fact.”"
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Murray LeinsterAnd this was no observation by a mere human, who might delude himself. — Murray Leinster
"And this was no observation by a mere human, who might delude himself. This was a report from complex electronic devices. It was images formed on phosphors coated on radar screen tubes, excited by accelerated electrons whose pattern of impact was governed by echoes from the original of the image. Phosphors do not imagine. Electrons are not affected by panic. As a radar image it was a faithful report—in its own terms, without interpretation—of something that actually was."
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Murray Leinster
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Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles.
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"Most men develop convictions about the cosmos and such beliefs come in two varieties. One kind is a conviction that the cosmos does not make sense. That it exists by chance and changes by chance and human beings do not matter. This view produces a fine complacency. The other kind is a belief that the cosmos does make sense, and was designed with the idea that people were going to live in it, and that what they do and what happens to them is important. This theory seems to be depressing."
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"Ive never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don’t you ever read about politics?"
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"Again time passed. In one of the remoter galaxies a supernova flamed, and on a rocky, barren world a small living thing squirmed experimentally—and to mankind the one event was just as important as the other."
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"It isn’t illegal to buy an artist’s work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!"
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"But it might not be true enough. It might be less than...well...sufficiently true in a particular instance."
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