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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
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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He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.
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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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God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.
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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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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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No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
Arthur C. Clarke
Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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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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Training was one thing, reality another.
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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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But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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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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The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
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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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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.
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Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
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I don't believe in astrology I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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