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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
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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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