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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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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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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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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A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.
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Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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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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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
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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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But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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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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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
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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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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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