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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.
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Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.
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Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.
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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
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I don't believe in astrology I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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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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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
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The only real problem in life is what to do next.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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