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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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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Arthur Charles Clarke
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I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made . . .This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
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I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
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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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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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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
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The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.
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Science is the only religion of mankind.
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The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
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If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
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The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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If children have interests, then education happens.
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It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop
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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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