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Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
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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He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
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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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The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke in his book Report on Planet Three]
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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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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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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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There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.
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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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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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Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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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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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
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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 Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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