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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.
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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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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It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop
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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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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.
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Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
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Science is the only religion of mankind.
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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
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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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I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
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Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.
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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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Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
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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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A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
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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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He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.
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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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