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If children have interests, then education happens.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Arthur Charles Clarke
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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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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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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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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
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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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And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
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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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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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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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Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.
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The future is not to be forecast, but created.
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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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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
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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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The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
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