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Science demands patience.
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Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death...
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts-indeed, sometimes from no facts-in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody’s conscious control.
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Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.
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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 greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Clarke's Second Law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
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As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
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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 non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.
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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
Arthur C. Clarke
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
Arthur C. Clarke -
There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
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One fail-safe after another had let them down. Helped by the ionospheric storm, the sheer perversity of inanimate things struck again.
Arthur C. Clarke -
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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As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson, Madge Micheels-Cyrus, p. 244
Arthur C. Clarke
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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If the WormCam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured.
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Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke -
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Arthur C. Clarke