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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.
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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People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.
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Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
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Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!
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The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
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Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
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Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.
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Now I understand,” said the last man.
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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.
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I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, If you've got a message, use Western Union.
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