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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
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When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
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No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.
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If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
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Science is the only religion of mankind.
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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
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Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.
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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble... But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.
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Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a space station in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.
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