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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.
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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A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
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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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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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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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