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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
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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
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When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.
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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
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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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If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
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Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.
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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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I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.
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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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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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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, If you've got a message, use Western Union.
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.
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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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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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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 sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
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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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