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Mark Clifton

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Also known as Mark Irvin Clifton

American writer (1906–1963)

Person · Open Library

Born
1906
Died
1963
Works
30

Top works

  • Worlds of If Super Pack #2
  • Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (The Future in Question / Space Mail)
  • Amazing stories
  • The Future in Question
  • Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 (1952)

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1925-06-25
Active to
1987-12-12
jazzr&bzydeco

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
15
Total plays
182

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Quotes

  • It took two thousand years for man to move from the concept that amber was a stone with a soul to the concept of static electricity.
  • There are two basic approaches to the meaning of life and the universe about us. Man can know: That is the approach of science, its whole meaning. There are mysteries which man was not meant to know: That is the other approach. There is no reconciling of the two on a reasoning basis.
  • Somehow I got the impression that instead of looking into a crystal ball, they would be more inclined to look out of one.
  • The suppressed hunger to think was like an epidemic.
  • Logical rationality is neither subversive nor nonsubversive. It is simply a statement of fact.
  • It (objection to a machine that could think) was the hook used by the rabble rousers, whose monopoly of moral interpretation might be challenged.

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