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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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Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
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Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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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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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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At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
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Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
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. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
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And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
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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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Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
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I don't believe in astrology I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
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Science demands patience.
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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...
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