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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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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Arthur Charles Clarke
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We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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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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The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
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In this universe the night was falling the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
Arthur C. Clarke
The future is not to be forecast, but created.
Arthur C. Clarke
Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
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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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I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made . . .This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble... But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
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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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All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
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I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.
Arthur C. Clarke
The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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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.
Arthur C. Clarke
Humor was the enemy of desire.
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