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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?
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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But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.
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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 only real problem in life is what to do next.
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Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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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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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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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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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.
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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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Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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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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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
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