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Famous Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
“Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.”
“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”
“I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.”
“Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence”
“Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological”
“But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.”
“Now I understand,” said the last man.”
“But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.”
“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”
“Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”
“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.”
“I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.”
“Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?”
“Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.”
“Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.”