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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
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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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
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The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
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One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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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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I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made . . .This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.
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The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
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No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.
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Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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