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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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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There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
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I don't believe in astrology I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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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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You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
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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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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.
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I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.
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No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.
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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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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
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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 newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
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If children have interests, then education happens.
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