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It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.
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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A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.
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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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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.
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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...
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Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
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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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Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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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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God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.
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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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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.
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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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After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
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I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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