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“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
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“Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases, 1- It’s completely impossible. 2- It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along”
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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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“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection, but the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn’t require religion at all”
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“There is no way back into the past,the choice, as Wells once said, is the universe, or nothing. Though men and civilizations may yearn for rest, for the dream of the lotus-eaters, that is a desire that merges imperceptibly into death. The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one, but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close”
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“A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible, indeed, inevitable, the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth, let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody”
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“After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them, not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring”
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“If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong”
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“Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn’t come here, well, it can’t hide forever, one day we will overhear it”
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“The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars, a whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space”
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“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight, each grows out of the other, and we need them all”
-Arthur C. Clarke quotes“We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?”
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-Arthur C. Clarke quotes“We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?”
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“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong”
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-Arthur C. Clarke quotes
“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”
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-Arthur C. Clarke quotes
“I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes, but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent”
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“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth, learning and loving. Nothing else, not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake can possibly have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say ‘I have learned’ and ‘I have loved,’ you will also be able to say I have been happy”
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