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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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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Arthur Charles Clarke
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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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When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.
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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.
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There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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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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