The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might asse… - Fred Hoyle

Of all the backgrounds it seems to me that the typical suburban community must be by far the worst. The child’s parents have already compromised with life by living in such a place. It would be far better from the child’s point of view to be raised in an actual slum. The danger is, of course, that the child quickly comes to regard comfort as the number one priority.

Once the spark was struck the story would spread like wildfire, and would be in the papers in next to no time. The Director had never had any cause to think highly of newspaper reporters, particularly of their scientific accuracy.

All people are the same, pretty well irrespective of color, creed, or the way they happen to grunt out their language.