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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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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Minehead
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Arthur Charles Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke
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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
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But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
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Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
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Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
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A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
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The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
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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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When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.
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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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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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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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