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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
Engineer
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Minehead
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Arthur Charles Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke
Charles Willis
Arthur Clarke
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Science demands patience.
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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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The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
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In this universe the night was falling the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again.
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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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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
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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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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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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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People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.
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If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.
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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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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.
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God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.
Arthur C. Clarke
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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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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Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
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