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But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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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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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No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.
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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
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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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We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
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A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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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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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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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.
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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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