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The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.
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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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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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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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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The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
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Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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If children have interests, then education happens.
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People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.
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I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
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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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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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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
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