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Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.
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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Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
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He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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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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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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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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. . . 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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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
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And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
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You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
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