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The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
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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Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
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You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
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If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
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Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.
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The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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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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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.
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A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
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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.
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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.
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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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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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At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.
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