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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.
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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God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.
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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.
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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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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
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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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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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Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
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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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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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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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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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