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The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
Engineer
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Arthur Charles Clarke
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Arthur Clarke
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Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
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Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!
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In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.
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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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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
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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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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...
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I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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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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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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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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Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
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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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Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
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