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The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
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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Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
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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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Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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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 more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
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I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
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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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To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.
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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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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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