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If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.
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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A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...
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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
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People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.
Arthur C. Clarke
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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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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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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All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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The future is not to be forecast, but created.
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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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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.
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Humor was the enemy of desire.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.
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Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
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