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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
Engineer
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Arthur Charles Clarke
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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
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But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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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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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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'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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Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
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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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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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The only real problem in life is what to do next.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
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The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.
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If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
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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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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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