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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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Arthur Charles Clarke
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.
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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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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
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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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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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It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.
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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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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
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People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
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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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If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
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