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The signal vanished for agonizing seconds, then came back much clearer, though not appreciably louder... relay this information to Earth". Using my suit radio - no idea if it has enough range, but it's the only chance. Please listen carefully. THERE IS LIFE ON EUROPA. I repeat: "THERE IS LIFE ON EUROPA..."
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Interplanetary travel is now the only form of "conquest and empire" compatible with civilization. Without it, the human mind, compelled to circle forever in its planetary goldfish bowl, must eventually stagnate.
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Who can guess what strange roads there may yet be on which we may travel to the stars?
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Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could.
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Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.
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When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.
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Nature never gives us something for nothing: in fact she usually takes more than she gives back.
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Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing except board meetings and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!
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Only little minds are impressed by size and number.
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Prophecy is a dangerous and thankless business, frequently fatal to those who practice it.
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Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. For somewhere in the world today, still unconscious of his destiny, walks the boy who will be the first Odysseus of the Age of Space.
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Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.
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Jesearc sat motionless within a whirlpool of numbers.... He was fascinated by the way in which the numbers he was studying were scattered, apparently according to no laws, across the spectrum of integers.
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There are more suns in the whole of space than there are grains of sand on all the shores of Earth; and on any one of those grains, there may be civilizations that will make us look like primitive, ignorant savages.
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The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing.... The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.
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The urge to explore, to discover, to "follow knowledge like a sinking star," is a primary human impulse which needs and can receive no further justification than its own existence.
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"I'd be glad to settle without the theory," remarked Kimball, "if I could even understand what this thing is — or what it's supposed to do."
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No dead weight shall be carried for a moment longer than necessary.
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Every thoughtful man has often asked himself: Is our race the only intelligence in the universe, or are there other, perhaps far higher, forms of life elsewhere? There can be few questions more important than this, for upon its outcome may depend all philosophy — yes, and all religion, too.
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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.
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The thing's hollow — it goes on forever — and — oh my God! — it's full of stars.
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The Solar System, comprising the nine known worlds of our Sun and their numerous satellites, is a relatively compact structure, a snug little celestial oasis in an endless desert.
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Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
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The Solar System is rather a large place, though whether it will be large enough for so quarrelsome an animal as Homo sapiens remains to be seen.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Born:
December 16, 1917
Died:
March 19, 2008
(aged 90)
Bio:
Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
Known for:
Rendezvous with Rama (1973)
Childhood's End (1953)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2061: Odyssey Three (1987)
2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
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