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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
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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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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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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.
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Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
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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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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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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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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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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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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
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At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
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Now I understand,” said the last man.
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It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop
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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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Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
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When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
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