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The future is not to be forecast, but created.
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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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.
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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 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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If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
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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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I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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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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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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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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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble... But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
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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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. . . 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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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.
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The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.
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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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