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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.
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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I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made . . .This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.
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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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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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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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I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
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If children have interests, then education happens.
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God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.
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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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Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.
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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 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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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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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
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A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
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