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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.

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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There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
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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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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
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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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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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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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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 theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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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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The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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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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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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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.
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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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The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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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 don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.
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