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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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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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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
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A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
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He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.
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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.
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If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
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I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.
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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... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.
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