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The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
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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In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.
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If children have interests, then education happens.
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Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
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The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.
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Humor was the enemy of desire.
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The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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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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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
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We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.
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