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There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.
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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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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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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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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I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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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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Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
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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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The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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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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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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