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There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
Engineer
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Arthur Charles Clarke
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Arthur Clarke
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I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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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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Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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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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Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.
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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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Science is the only religion of mankind.
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The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
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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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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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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
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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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Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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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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Science demands patience.
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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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