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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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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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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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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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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
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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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Humor was the enemy of desire.
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I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
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I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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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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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.
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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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Science is the only religion of mankind.
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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
Arthur C. Clarke
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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