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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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Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
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. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
Arthur C. Clarke
The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
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If children have interests, then education happens.
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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.
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If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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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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A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
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Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.
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It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
Arthur C. Clarke
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.
Arthur C. Clarke
