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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
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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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Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!
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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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You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
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Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a space station in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)
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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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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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