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1:Magic is just science that we don't understand yet. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

2:It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

3:The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

4:But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

5:Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

6:He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it. ~ Arthur C Clarke, Arthur C Clarke,

8:One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. Switching to the display unit's short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him. ~ Arthur C Clarke, Arthur C Clarke, Arthur C Clarke, Arthur C Clarke, Arthur C Clarke,

137:Carente de contacto con el mundo exterior, era un universo en sí misma. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

138:Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

139:Lo que la naturaleza puede hacer, también el hombre lo hace, a su modo. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

140:The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

141:could one make up for lack of moral courage by proving physical bravery? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

142:Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

143:I've come a billion miles - I don't want to be stopped by the last sixty ~ Arthur C Clarke,

144:like everything that was worth doing, that would take time and practice. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

145:Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

146:One’s first existence was a precious gift which would never be repeated. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

147:Pat’s knowledge of terrestrial history was vague; like most residents of ~ Arthur C Clarke,

148:The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

149:The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it’s full of stars! ~ Arthur C Clarke,

150:But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

151:How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

152:Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

153:The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

154:They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence; ~ Arthur C Clarke,

155:This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger ~ Arthur C Clarke,

156:dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

157:He’s a creature of today—not haunted by the past or fearful of the future! ~ Arthur C Clarke,

158:Jan had always been a good pianist—and now he was the finest in the world. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

159:There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

160:This hydrogen was under such enormous pressure that it had become a metal. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

161:This would involve disconnection—the computer equivalent of death. Despite ~ Arthur C Clarke,

162:Toda tecnología lo suficientemente avanzada es indistinguible de la magia. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

163:was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; ~ Arthur C Clarke,

164:How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

165:Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

166:Detachment was all very well, but it could change so easily to indifference. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

167:If the present is shitty and the future is worse, the past is all you've got ~ Arthur C Clarke,

168:It seemed altogether unfair and unreasonable that the sky should be so hard. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

169:Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

170:Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

171:Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

172:It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

173:I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

174:Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

175:The familiar can be as shocking as the strange—when it is in the wrong place. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

176:Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

177:What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

178:Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.” There ~ Arthur C Clarke,

179:Nicole’s intuition told her not to follow the fireflies, but she said nothing. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

180:The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

181:A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

182:Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

183:I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

184:One of the benefits of Dr. Kreuger’s eminence was an unlimited computer budget: ~ Arthur C Clarke,

185:Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

186:The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it’s full of stars! ~ Arthur C Clarke,

187:Belief in God is apparently a psychological arti-fact of mammalian reproduction. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

188:but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as ~ Arthur C Clarke,

189:... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

190:Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

191:Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

192:Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

193:. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

194:As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

195:It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

196:It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but ~ Arthur C Clarke,

197:Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

198:The human mind, somehow, seems much more attracted by the false than by the true; ~ Arthur C Clarke,

199:They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

200:Jede hinreichend fortschrittliche Technologie ist von Magie nicht zu unterscheiden ~ Arthur C Clarke,

201:Yet if there were no hazards there would be no achievement, no sense of adventure. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

202:After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

203:Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, and Hal was silent forever. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

204:He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

205:It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

206:Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

207:The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

208:And just fifty years had separated the Wright Brothers from the first jet airliners. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

209:Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use ~ Arthur C Clarke,

210:I’d hate to do arithmetic, George thought to himself, in a system based on fourteen. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

211:If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

212:It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

213:The limits of possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

214:This is as bad as the Pandora party! It’s nothing less than interstellar xenophobia! ~ Arthur C Clarke,

215:It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

216:One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

217:Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

218:Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

219:Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

220:A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

221:... But for goodness sake, Frank— forget you're an engineer, and simply enjoy the view. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

222:For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

223:He was now probably the world’s leading authority on the greatest explorer of all time, ~ Arthur C Clarke,

224:Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

225:Humanity had lost its ancient gods: now it was old enough to have no need for new ones. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

226:The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible ~ Arthur C Clarke,

227:he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: “a noise surrounded by dirt. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

228:I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

229:Martin’s one of the nicest fellows you could meet, as long as you don’t do it too often. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

230:The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

231:had often been said that the only thing that could unite Mankind was a threat from space. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

232:Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

233:The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

234:Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

235:religion was the by-product of fear—a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

236:Theists believe there’s not more than one God; Deists that there is not less than one God. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

237:...if one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

238:Nonsense,” he laughed. “It’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s only a purr-pull peephole eater. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

239:throbbed into silence… “And that’s the way it was—goodbye, wonderful and terrible Twentieth ~ Arthur C Clarke,

240:No electronic computer can match the human brain at associating apparently irrelevant facts. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

241:Civilization and Religion are incompatible” and “Faith is believing what you know isn’t true. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

242:Dr. Brown considered all engineers to be nothing more than glorified carpenters and plumbers. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

243:First rule of government of the people, by the people, for the people: Never tell the people! ~ Arthur C Clarke,

244:The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion ~ Arthur C Clarke,

245:The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

246:We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

247:But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

248:Don’t blame me for what happened on Earth,” he said. “I’ve never been there, and I never will— ~ Arthur C Clarke,

249:Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

250:The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

251:The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

252:The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

253:having something even bigger to worry about is perhaps the best cure for any insoluble problem. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

254:I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

255:I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

256:…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization… ~ Arthur C Clarke,

257:But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

258:Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

259:Evolution and science had come to the same answers; and the work of Nature had lasted longer. At ~ Arthur C Clarke,

260:man’s beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

261:One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

262:A hundred failures would not matter, when a single success could change the destiny of the world. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

263:In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: “Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

264:In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

265:Otsusta minu üle mu tegude järgi, ehkki neid on vähe, mitte mu sõnade järgi, kuigi neid on palju. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

266:a man’s beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

267:an expressive phrase coined by a Princeton mathematician of the last century: “Wormholes in space. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

268:Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

269:Nothing is deader than yesterday’s science-fiction— and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

270:A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

271:I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

272:My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

273:Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

274:And as for you, Paul, I assured him that you could keep a secret for up to six days without apoplexy. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

275:As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

276:The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

277:Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

278:Someone once said that for every problem there is a solution that is simple, attractive ... and wrong. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

279:But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

280:But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. A.C.C. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

281:for there was no vessel—at least of Man’s making—anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

282:I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union." ~ Arthur C Clarke,

283:Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

284:My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

285:Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying ~ Arthur C Clarke,

286:We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... ~ Arthur C Clarke,

287:all the world’s religions cannot be right, and they know it. Sooner or later man has to learn the truth: ~ Arthur C Clarke,

288:I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

289:It’s not any kind of rock—it crumbles when I touch it—I feel as if I’m exploring a giant Gruyère cheese… ~ Arthur C Clarke,

290:Long ago it had been discovered that without some crime or disorder, Utopia soon became unbearably dull. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

291:One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

292:Pat thought that he had better disclaim responsibility for the misdeeds of his terrestrial predecessors. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

293:Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

294:Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

295:We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... ~ Arthur C Clarke,

296:They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

297:Faith in one’s own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man, ~ Arthur C Clarke,

298:Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell ~ Arthur C Clarke,

299:Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

300:Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

301:What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

302:but Pat thought that he had better disclaim responsibility for the misdeeds of his terrestrial predecessors. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

303:Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

304:He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it…. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

305:I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

306:Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

307:Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

308:The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

309:The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

310:The drought had lasted for 10 million years now, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

311:The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

312:Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

313:Democracy, frequently defined as “Individual greed, moderated by an efficient but not too zealous government. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

314:Myron, like countless NCO’s before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

315:He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

316:How I envy them,” said Colonel Jones. “Sometimes it’s quite a relief to have something trivial to worry about. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

317:If we both believe that we have nothing to learn from the other, is it not obvious that we will both be wrong? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

318:News that is sufficiently bad somehow carries its own guarantee of truth. Only good reports need confirmation. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

319:[...] parecía ahora desoladoramente primitiva ante los poderes que le estaban llevando a un inimaginable sino. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

320:There is something very strange about a universe where a few dead butterflies can balance a billion-ton tower. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

321:Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

322:All that had gone before was not a thousandth of what was yet to come; the story of this star had barely begun. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

323:forty-one was a “very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

324:It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

325:The origin of the universe might be forever unknown, but all that had happened after obeyed the laws of physics ~ Arthur C Clarke,

326:ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

327:Do you believe in ghosts, Dim?” “Certainly not: but like every sensible man, I’m afraid of them. Why do you ask? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

328:The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

329:You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

330:Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

331:And it was difficult to imagine what answer Earth could possibly send, except a tactfully sympathetic, “Good-bye. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

332:Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

333:It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

334:On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples: he shrank from diverting its course. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

335:The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

336:there were some who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question: “Where do we go from here? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

337:Few artists thrive in solitude, and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

338:He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace. The ~ Arthur C Clarke,

339:But at least we have answered one ancient question. We are not alone. The stars will never again be the same to us. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

340:Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom. Perhaps ~ Arthur C Clarke,

341:I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

342:If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

343:We’re particularly anxious to get our hands on Pioneer 10—the first man-made object to escape from the Solar System. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

344:Cuando la belleza es universal pierde su poder de conmovernos, y sólo su falta logra producir algún efecto emocional. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

345:En ese momento, mientras su corazón anhelaba lo inalcanzable, tomó una decisión. Supo entonces qué haría con su vida. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

346:Hal (for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, no less) was a masterwork of the third computer breakthrough. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

347:Much had been lost during the centuries, for men seldom bother to preserve the commonplace articles of everyday life. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

348:The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

349:the next day the government of South Africa announced that full civil rights would be restored to the white minority. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

350:The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

351:Desde el alba de los tiempos, aproximadamente cien mil millones de seres humanos han transitado por el planeta Tierra. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

352:Hogyan háborgathat bárki is egy két kilométer hosszú, fekete hasábot? És vajon milyen formában közölné a rosszallását? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

353:Man sank into a superstitious barbarism during which he distorted history to remove his sense of impotence and failure ~ Arthur C Clarke,

354:The fax machine now allows us to exchange ideas almost in real time; it’s far more convenient than the Electronic Mail ~ Arthur C Clarke,

355:Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

356:When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

357:Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

358:And because, in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

359:[...] entre tandas de incierto dormitar y temerosa espera, estaban naciendo las pesadillas de generaciones aún por ser. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

360:Even a doomed man might reasonably be expected to take some slight interest in a few thousand square meters of gems. He ~ Arthur C Clarke,

361:He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

362:like all material things, they were not immune to the corruptions of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

363:The ladies were quite uninterested; either because they did not care for mathematics, or preferred to ignore birthdays. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

364: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. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

365:This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

366:You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

367:La única posibilidad de descubrir los límites de lo posible es aventurarse un poco más allá de ellos, hacia lo imposible. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

368:Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future. He ~ Arthur C Clarke,

369:Curnow had once remarked that Dr. Chandra had the sort of physique that could only be achieved by centuries of starvation. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

370: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? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

371:las palabras de mando eran inútiles, y los hombres, agarrados con todas sus fuerzas a las vergas mientras el barco danzaba ~ Arthur C Clarke,

372:There was nothing wrong, he reminded himself, with healthy fear; only when it escalated into panic did it become a killer. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

373:„Căci, deși era stăpânul lumii, nu era foarte sigur ce trebuia să facă în continuare, Dar avea el să se gândească la ceva”. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

374:I said nothing about men adapting themselves to Mars. Have you ever considered the possibility of Mars meeting us half-way? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

375:A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

376:Cassini—who discovered Japetus in 1671—also observed that it was six times brighter on one side of its orbit than the other. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

377:I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

378:Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

379:Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

380:Stormgren had walked to his desk and was fidgeting with his famous uranium paperweight. He was not nervous—merely undecided. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

381:The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. Accidents, ~ Arthur C Clarke,

382:What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

383:Believe me, it gives us no pleasure to destroy men’s faiths, but all the world’s religions cannot be right, and they know it. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

384:In Brohier’s eyes, violence was not merely the last refuge of the incompetent. It was the gloating revenge of the sore loser. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

385:Ja see, mõtles Alvin, mida ta nüüd nägi, ei olnud lihtsalt mälestus. See oli midagi keerukamat - see oli mäluseadme mälestus. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

386:Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

387:Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

388:aquellos fenomenales victorianos que a veces hacen a uno preguntarse si la raza humana no se habrá deteriorado desde entonces. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

389:Afrikaans is one of the world’s best languages in which to curse; even when spoken politely, it can bruise innocent bystanders. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

390:Beyond gravity, some of that freedom was regained; with the loss of weight went many of the cares and worries of Earth. Heywood ~ Arthur C Clarke,

391:Both times he had won through, but he knew well enough that any man, in the right circumstances, could be dehumanized by panic. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

392:—Hay una regla que he intentado respetar toda mi vida: no pierdas nunca el sueño por problemas que no está en tu mano resolver. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

393:Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

394:And as for the Council—tell it that a road that has once been opened cannot be closed again merely by passing a resolution.’ The ~ Arthur C Clarke,

395:He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity—the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

396:(Isn’t that human nature? Most of the time we want it to be better. When it’s as good as it can be, we want it to last forever), ~ Arthur C Clarke,

397:Now that they were no longer half-numbed with starvation, they had time both for leisure and for the first rudiments of thought. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

398:The crisis was over. What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

399:The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

400:The sixth member of the crew cared for none of these things, for it was not human. It was the highly advanced HAL 9000 computer, ~ Arthur C Clarke,

401:Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

402:That’s still looking a long way ahead. For the present, you’re the only person who should attempt communication. Agreed, Captain? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

403:Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

404:Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and Art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with Love. Men ~ Arthur C Clarke,

405:We wanted you to have a feel for the size of your habitat, in case you needed that to be more comfortable with the design process. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

406:When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

407:He had no wish to face whatever lurked in the unknown darkness, just beyond the little circle of light cast by the lamp of Science. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

408: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,

409:The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

410:The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

411:it’s only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess! ~ Arthur C Clarke,

412:Soon after her beloved young brother was killed, she asked me, “What is the purpose of grief? Does it serve any biological function? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

413:They could never guess that their minds were being probed, their bodies mapped, their reactions studied, their potentials evaluated. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

414:They’d all been carefully screened by the F.B.I., so probably not more than half a dozen were active members of the Communist Party. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

415:The recipe for a long, happy life: consult with old philosophers and young doctors, consort with old friends and young women. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

416:As crianças crescem depressa neste ambiente de baixa gravidade. Mas não envelhecem na mesma proporção e assim viverão mais do que nós. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

417:Dmitri era uno de los mejores amigos de Floyd; y por esa misma razón, era la última persona con quien deseaba hablar en aquel momento. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

418:I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

419:No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

420:The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

421:Well, that’s a relief. You know that I have the greatest possible enthusiasm for this mission.” “I’m sure of it. Now please let me have ~ Arthur C Clarke,

422:All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

423:Richard turned to his portable computer and, working from notes, called up on the monitor a mass of numbers arrayed in rows and columns. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

424:There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

425:They would probably never even know that the human race existed. Such monumental indifference was worse than any deliberate insult. When ~ Arthur C Clarke,

426: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,

427:Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible ~ Arthur C Clarke,

428:Lucretius hit it on the nail when he said that religion was the by-product of fear—a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

429: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. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

430:The history of the Universe must be a mass of such disconnected threads, and no one could say which were important and which were trivial. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

431:Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

432:I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

433:No era el miedo a los abismos galácticos lo que helaba su alma, sino una más profunda inquietud, que brotaba desde el futuro aún por nacer. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

434:That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

435:There was awe, and there was also incredulity—sheer disbelief that the dead Moon, of all worlds, could have sprung this fantastic surprise. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

436:Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

437:Katılıyorum Tanya. Ama Haldane'in ünlü sözünü hatırla: Evren sadece hayal ettiğimizden daha garip değil; hayal edebileceğimizden daha garip. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

438:Now, what did “feel” really mean to a computer? Another very good question, but hardly one to be considered at that particular moment. Then, ~ Arthur C Clarke,

439:Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

440: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? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

441:Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man’s quest for perfect communications. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

442: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? ~ Arthur C Clarke,

443:He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

444:SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

445:Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

446:All bureaucracies are the same. They drain the life out of the truly creative people and develop mindless paper-pushers as their critical mass. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

447:Yalnızca zamanın derman olabileceği bazı şeyler vardı hayatta. Kötüler yok edilebilirdi, ancak aklı karışmış iyi birine hiçbir şey yapılamazdı. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

448:I would be greatly distressed if this book contributed still further to the seduction of the gullible, now cynically exploited by all the media. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

449: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. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

450:She should have won, but she didn’t. Her father had consoled her by telling Nicole that France was not ready for its heroines to have dark skin. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

451:That first Prime Monitor,” he said, “was sent by the Creator, from another dimension of the early universe, into our evolving space-time system. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

452:The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon it would lie outside the experience of all living men. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

453:There was no objection when he said: “I’m going after it.” Nor did he expect there to be; his life was now his own, to do with as he pleased. He ~ Arthur C Clarke,

454:He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

455:It was such a nuisance that men were fundamentally polygamous. On the other hand, if they weren’t… Yes, perhaps it was better this way, after all. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

456:I agree with you, Captain,” he whispered. “The human race has to live with its conscience. Whatever the Hermians argue, survival is not everything. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

457:Alvin is happy,’ Jeserac continued. ‘He has formed no real attachments, and it is hard to see how he can while he still suffers from this obsession. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

458:When you all have figgered out how to sail across space to our shores, you’ll find yourselves just as welcome as the people who come to your shores. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

459:Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

460:Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on those planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

461:Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

462: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. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

463: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. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

464:Though that, surely, could not be its ultimate goal, it was aimed squarely at the Greater Magellanic Cloud, and the lonely gulfs beyond the Milky Way. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

465:As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

466:CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

467:The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

468:Absence of noise is not a natural condition; all human senses require some input. If they are deprived of it, the mind manufactures its own substitutes. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

469:Although Lucifer had accelerated the process, it has begun decades earlier, when the coming of the jet age had triggered and explosion of global tourism ~ Arthur C Clarke,

470:For Jan was still suffering from the romantic illusion–the cause of so much misery and so much poetry–that every man has only one real love in his life. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

471:I’m only an ex-astronomer; it’s years since I did any real research. Now I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

472:New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! ~ Arthur C Clarke,

473:Because Nature always balances her books, the Sun lost some velocity in the transaction; but the effect would not be measurable for a few thousand years. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

474:Pat’s knowledge of terrestrial history was vague; like most residents of the Moon, he tended to assume that nothing of great importance had ever happened ~ Arthur C Clarke,

475:Summer 2161: Brown, eleven, enrolled in Camp Longhorn by father over strenuous objections of mother. Typical outdoor summer camp in hill country of Texas ~ Arthur C Clarke,

476:The trouble with cliché's, some philosopher remarked, probably with a yawn, is that they are so boringly true. But "love at first sight" is never boring. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

477:They found it hard to imagine the smog-choked cities of the Twentieth Century, and the waste, greed, and appalling environmental disasters of the Oil Age. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

478:Ésa era la respuesta formal; después de escucharla con tanta frecuencia, perdía todo sentido, reducida a una secuencia de sonidos sin significado especial. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

479:I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

480:We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

481:It was secret that with greatest determination , was very hard to conceal - for it affected one's attitude, one's voice ,one's total outlook on the universe ~ Arthur C Clarke,

482:It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

483:The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

484:Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts of self-preservation would not take over in an emergency. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

485:Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe; that was almost an article of faith among scientists. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

486:I thought this couldn’t happen in astronomy. Isn’t celestial mechanics supposed to be an exact science? So we poor backward biologists were always being told. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

487:La primera existencia era un precioso don que jamás se volvía a repetir. Era maravilloso contemplar la vida por primera vez, como en la frescura de la aurora. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

488:harsh verdict of the great philosopher Lucretius: all religions were fundamentally immoral, because the superstitions they peddled wrought more evil than good. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

489:He left the unspoken question hanging in the air. How did one annoy a two- kilometre-long black rectangular slab? And just what form would its disapproval take ~ Arthur C Clarke,

490:Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting ~ Arthur C Clarke,

491:Whatever godlike powers and principalaties lurked beyond the stars, Poole reminded himself, for ordinary humans only two things were important: Love and Death. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

492:Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

493:My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19] ~ Arthur C Clarke,

494:Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

495: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. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

496:…A man may take one step ahead of his culture and chance being called a genius. But if he takes two steps, he is certain to be called a menace, a madman, a fool. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

497:It seemed to him that his ship was rather like a stranded whale that had managed a difficult birth in an alien element. He hoped that the new calf would survive. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

498:Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

499:[...] mundos que en cualquier otra parte hubiesen sido considerados como planetas por propio derecho, pero que allí eran simplemente satélites de un amo gigante. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

500:Otto would pull the trigger at the slightest provocation and you, Michael, would agonize aver its morality even if your life were threatened. I'm the tiebreaker. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

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