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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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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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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Now I understand,” said the last man.
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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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You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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