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Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a space station in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)

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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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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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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I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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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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I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.
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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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. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
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Science is the only religion of mankind.
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Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
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Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
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