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Arthur C Clarke
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1:Magic is just science that we don't understand yet. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #KEYS
2:It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #KEYS
3:The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #KEYS
4:But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #KEYS
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, #KEYS
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, #KEYS
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, #NFDB
137:Carente de contacto con el mundo exterior, era un universo en sí misma. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
138:Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
139:Lo que la naturaleza puede hacer, también el hombre lo hace, a su modo. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
140:The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
141:could one make up for lack of moral courage by proving physical bravery? ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
142:Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
143:I've come a billion miles - I don't want to be stopped by the last sixty ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
144:like everything that was worth doing, that would take time and practice. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
145:Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
146:One’s first existence was a precious gift which would never be repeated. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
147:Pat’s knowledge of terrestrial history was vague; like most residents of ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
148:The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
149:The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it’s full of stars! ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
150:But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
151:How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
152:Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
153:The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
154:They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence; ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
155:This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
156:dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
157:He’s a creature of today—not haunted by the past or fearful of the future! ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
158:Jan had always been a good pianist—and now he was the finest in the world. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
159:There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
160:This hydrogen was under such enormous pressure that it had become a metal. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
161:This would involve disconnection—the computer equivalent of death. Despite ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
162:Toda tecnología lo suficientemente avanzada es indistinguible de la magia. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
163:was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
164:How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
165:Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
166:Detachment was all very well, but it could change so easily to indifference. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
167:If the present is shitty and the future is worse, the past is all you've got ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
168:It seemed altogether unfair and unreasonable that the sky should be so hard. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
169:Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
170:Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
171:Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
172:It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
173:I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
174:Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
175:The familiar can be as shocking as the strange—when it is in the wrong place. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
176:Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
177:What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
178:Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.” There ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
179:Nicole’s intuition told her not to follow the fireflies, but she said nothing. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
180:The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
181:A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
182:Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
183:I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
184:One of the benefits of Dr. Kreuger’s eminence was an unlimited computer budget: ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
185:Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
186:The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it’s full of stars! ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
187:Belief in God is apparently a psychological arti-fact of mammalian reproduction. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
188:but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
189:... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
190:Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
191:Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
192:Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
193:. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
194:As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
195:It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
196:It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
197:Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
198:The human mind, somehow, seems much more attracted by the false than by the true; ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
199:They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
200:Jede hinreichend fortschrittliche Technologie ist von Magie nicht zu unterscheiden ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
201:Yet if there were no hazards there would be no achievement, no sense of adventure. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
202:After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
203:Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, and Hal was silent forever. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
204:He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
205:It may be that our role on this planet
is not to worship God--but to create him. ~ Arthur C Clarke,#NFDB
206:Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
207:The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
208:And just fifty years had separated the Wright Brothers from the first jet airliners. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
209:Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
210:I’d hate to do arithmetic, George thought to himself, in a system based on fourteen. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
211:If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
212:It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
213:The limits of possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
214:This is as bad as the Pandora party! It’s nothing less than interstellar xenophobia! ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
216:One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
217:Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
218:Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
219:Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
220:A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
221:... But for goodness sake, Frank— forget you're an engineer, and simply enjoy the view. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
222:For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
223:He was now probably the world’s leading authority on the greatest explorer of all time, ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
224:Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
225:Humanity had lost its ancient gods: now it was old enough to have no need for new ones. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
226:The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
227:he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: “a noise surrounded by dirt. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
228:I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
229:Martin’s one of the nicest fellows you could meet, as long as you don’t do it too often. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
230:The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
231:had often been said that the only thing that could unite Mankind was a threat from space. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
232:Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
233:The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
234:Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
235:religion was the by-product of fear—a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
236:Theists believe there’s not more than one God; Deists that there is not less than one God. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
237:...if one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
238:Nonsense,” he laughed. “It’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s only a purr-pull peephole eater. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
239:throbbed into silence… “And that’s the way it was—goodbye, wonderful and terrible Twentieth ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
240:No electronic computer can match the human brain at associating apparently irrelevant facts. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
241:Civilization and Religion are incompatible” and “Faith is believing what you know isn’t true. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
242:Dr. Brown considered all engineers to be nothing more than glorified carpenters and plumbers. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
243:First rule of government of the people, by the people, for the people: Never tell the people! ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
244:The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
245:The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
246:We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
247:But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
248:Don’t blame me for what happened on Earth,” he said. “I’ve never been there, and I never will— ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
249:Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
250:The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
251:The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
252:The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
253:having something even bigger to worry about is perhaps the best cure for any insoluble problem. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
254:I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
255:I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
256:…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization… ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
257:But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
258:Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do? ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
259:Evolution and science had come to the same answers; and the work of Nature had lasted longer. At ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
260:man’s beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
261:One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
262:A hundred failures would not matter, when a single success could change the destiny of the world. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
263:In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: “Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
264:In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
265:Otsusta minu üle mu tegude järgi, ehkki neid on vähe, mitte mu sõnade järgi, kuigi neid on palju. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
266:a man’s beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
267:an expressive phrase coined by a Princeton mathematician of the last century: “Wormholes in space. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
268:Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
269:Nothing is deader than yesterday’s science-fiction— and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
270:A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
271:I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
272:My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
273:Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
275:As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
276:The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
278:Someone once said that for every problem there is a solution that is simple, attractive ... and wrong. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
279:But please remember: this is only a work of fiction.
The truth, as always, will be far stranger. ~ Arthur C Clarke,#NFDB
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, #NFDB
281:for there was no vessel—at least of Man’s making—anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
283:Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
284:My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
285:Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
288:I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
290:Long ago it had been discovered that without some crime or disorder, Utopia soon became unbearably dull. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
291:One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
292:Pat thought that he had better disclaim responsibility for the misdeeds of his terrestrial predecessors. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
293:Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
294:Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
296:They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
299:Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
300:Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
301:What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
302:but Pat thought that he had better disclaim responsibility for the misdeeds of his terrestrial predecessors. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
303:Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
306:Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
309:The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
310:The drought had lasted for 10 million years now, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
312:Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
313:Democracy, frequently defined as “Individual greed, moderated by an efficient but not too zealous government. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
314:Myron, like countless NCO’s before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
315:He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
316:How I envy them,” said Colonel Jones. “Sometimes it’s quite a relief to have something trivial to worry about. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
318:News that is sufficiently bad somehow carries its own guarantee of truth. Only good reports need confirmation. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
319:[...] parecía ahora desoladoramente primitiva ante los poderes que le estaban llevando a un inimaginable sino. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
320:There is something very strange about a universe where a few dead butterflies can balance a billion-ton tower. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
323:forty-one was a “very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
324:It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
325:The origin of the universe might be forever unknown, but all that had happened after obeyed the laws of physics ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
326:ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE. ~ Arthur C Clarke,#NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
330:Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
331:And it was difficult to imagine what answer Earth could possibly send, except a tactfully sympathetic, “Good-bye. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
332:Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
335:The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
337:Few artists thrive in solitude, and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
338:He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace. The ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
344:Cuando la belleza es universal pierde su poder de conmovernos, y sólo su falta logra producir algún efecto emocional. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
345:En ese momento, mientras su corazón anhelaba lo inalcanzable, tomó una decisión. Supo entonces qué haría con su vida. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
346:Hal (for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, no less) was a masterwork of the third computer breakthrough. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
347:Much had been lost during the centuries, for men seldom bother to preserve the commonplace articles of everyday life. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
349:the next day the government of South Africa announced that full civil rights would be restored to the white minority. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
351:Desde el alba de los tiempos, aproximadamente cien mil millones de seres humanos han transitado por el planeta Tierra. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
352:Hogyan háborgathat bárki is egy két kilométer hosszú, fekete hasábot? És vajon milyen formában közölné a rosszallását? ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
353:Man sank into a superstitious barbarism during which he distorted history to remove his sense of impotence and failure ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
358:And because, in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
359:[...] entre tandas de incierto dormitar y temerosa espera, estaban naciendo las pesadillas de generaciones aún por ser. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
362:like all material things, they were not immune to the corruptions of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
363:The ladies were quite uninterested; either because they did not care for mathematics, or preferred to ignore birthdays. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
377:I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
378:Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
380:Stormgren had walked to his desk and was fidgeting with his famous uranium paperweight. He was not nervous—merely undecided. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
381:The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. Accidents, ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
385:Ja see, mõtles Alvin, mida ta nüüd nägi, ei olnud lihtsalt mälestus. See oli midagi keerukamat - see oli mäluseadme mälestus. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
386:Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
388:aquellos fenomenales victorianos que a veces hacen a uno preguntarse si la raza humana no se habrá deteriorado desde entonces. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
398:The crisis was over. What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
413:They could never guess that their minds were being probed, their bodies mapped, their reactions studied, their potentials evaluated. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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,#NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
419:No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
437:Katılıyorum Tanya. Ama Haldane'in ünlü sözünü hatırla: Evren sadece hayal ettiğimizden daha garip değil; hayal edebileceğimizden daha garip. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
447:Yalnızca zamanın derman olabileceği bazı şeyler vardı hayatta. Kötüler yok edilebilirdi, ancak aklı karışmış iyi birine hiçbir şey yapılamazdı. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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,#NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
493:My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19] ~ Arthur C Clarke,#NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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, #NFDB
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