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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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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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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
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I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
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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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Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
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I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
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In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.
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People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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Humor was the enemy of desire.
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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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The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
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I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.
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When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
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The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Arthur C. Clarke
