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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...
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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He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.
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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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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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I don't believe in astrology I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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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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Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.
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There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.
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Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.
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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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Science demands patience.
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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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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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The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
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A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
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I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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