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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.
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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The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.
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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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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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I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
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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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Training was one thing, reality another.
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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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Science demands patience.
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Humor was the enemy of desire.
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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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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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The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
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No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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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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Science is the only religion of mankind.
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