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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.
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 more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
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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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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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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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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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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
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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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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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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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He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
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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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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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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.
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Science demands patience.
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
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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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Humor was the enemy of desire.
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The only real problem in life is what to do next.
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