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The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.
— Arthur C. Clarke
For if not true, they are well imagined...
— Arthur C. Clarke
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
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My God it's full of stars! — Arthur C. Clarke
who is better off, the child with a mentor who knows and tells everything or the one whose teacher helps the child find her own answers?
— Arthur C. Clarke
Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.
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Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
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One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
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So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.
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It seemed altogether unfair and unreasonable that the sky should be so hard.
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All bureaucracies are the same. They drain the life out of the truly creative people and develop mindless paper-pushers as their critical mass.
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Kalevala, whereas
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No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time.
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No trilogy should have more than four books.
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There's an ancient philosophical joke that's much subtler than it seems. Question: Why is the Universe here? Answer: Where else would it be?
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Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.
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Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.
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Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
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Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?
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It is hard to draw any line between compassion and love.
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SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
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The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.
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God was just this black void that we cried into.
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The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
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I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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Mystery was piling upon mystery, and that for all his efforts he was getting further and further from any understanding of the truths he sought.
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President of the Society for Creative Anachronisms.
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Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
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But for goodness sake, Frank - forget you're an engineer, and simply enjoy the view.
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Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.
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Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.
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I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
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Adamski's Disease.
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Personally, I refuse to drive a car - I won't have anything to do with any kind of transportation in which I can't read.
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Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use
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The only real problem in life is what to do next.
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Hal remained a low-grade moron.
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Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.
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This would involve disconnection - the computer equivalent of death. Despite
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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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One's first existence was a precious gift which would never be repeated.
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Tranquillity was not a state of mind that could be sustained for long.
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The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
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Man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.
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I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
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The timeless instant passed.
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You can't have action without reaction.
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What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity.
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The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth.
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Cassini - who discovered Japetus in 1671 - also observed that it was six times brighter on one side of its orbit than the other.
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I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.
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Chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?
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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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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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How foolish that expectation had been! He knew now that one might as well hope to see the wind, or speculate about the true shape of fire.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.
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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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all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it. Sooner or later man has to learn the truth:
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Stormgren had walked to his desk and was fidgeting with his famous uranium paperweight. He was not nervous - merely undecided.
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Myron, like countless NCO's before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility.
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Democracy, frequently defined as Individual greed, moderated by an efficient but not too zealous government.
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Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good.
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Hello, Dave," said Hal presently. "Have you found the trouble?" This
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If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
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Discovery was no longer a happy ship.
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For there was no vessel - at least of Man's making - anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars.
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Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction - and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday.
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I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
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magnetohydrodynamic
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Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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throughout the flight, but there
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If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.
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He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it ... .
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Futilitarianism.
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We're particularly anxious to get our hands on Pioneer 10 - the first man-made object to escape from the Solar System.
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Forty-one was a very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes.
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In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
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Don't believe anything I've told you - merely because I said it.
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Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.
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You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
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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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Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
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Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, and Hal was silent forever.
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If we are unable to download, remember us.
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No on of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.
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Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.
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