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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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Arthur Charles Clarke
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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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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.
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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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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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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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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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Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.
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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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Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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