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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.

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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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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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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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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Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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Now I understand,” said the last man.
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble... But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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The only real problem in life is what to do next.
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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
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