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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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The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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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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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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No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
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Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
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The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
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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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I don't believe in astrology I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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