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I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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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Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
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To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.
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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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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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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
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There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
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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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I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
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Science demands patience.
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If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.
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But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
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The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.
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When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.
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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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