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A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
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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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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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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Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
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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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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.
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One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
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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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I don't believe in astrology I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.
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Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.
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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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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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