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Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
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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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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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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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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Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.
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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.
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Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
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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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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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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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The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
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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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I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing.
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.
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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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You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
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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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The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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