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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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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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If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.
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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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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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One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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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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But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
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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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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made . . .This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.
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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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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 demands patience.
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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.
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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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