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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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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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The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
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Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.
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The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.
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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
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Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.
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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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Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
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I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing.
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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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A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
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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 will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
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