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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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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Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
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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.
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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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No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.
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I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
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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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People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.
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Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
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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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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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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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The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.
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I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.
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Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.
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