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Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
Arthur C. Clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
Engineer
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Arthur Charles Clarke
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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
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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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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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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke in his book Report on Planet Three]
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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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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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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
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