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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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No dead weight shall be carried for a moment longer than necessary.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Prophecy is a dangerous and thankless business, frequently fatal to those who practice it.
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Like Great Britain, the Moon has no climate - only weather.
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
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Technology is almost magical, and ambition for a better life is now universal.
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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?
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Sooner or later we will come to the edge of the Solar System and will be looking out across the ultimate abyss. Then we must choose whether we reach the stars — or whether we wait until the stars reach us.
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In space there are no horizons; the questing eye reaches out forever, in all directions, and finds no fixed point at which to rest.
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I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.
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Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.
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Given power and knowledge (wisdom is rather useful, too) nothing that does not infringe the laws of Nature need be regarded as impossible.
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Some facts are so incredible that they are believed at once, for no one could possibly have imagined them.
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The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.
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We will not exhaust the marvels of the physical Universe until we have explored the whole Cosmos - and that prospect is still, to say the least, satisfyingly remote, if indeed it is theoretically possible. We have scarcely begun a voyage of discovery which may never have an end.
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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.
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If ships from Earth ever set out to conquer other worlds they may find themselves, at the end of their journeys, in the position of painted war-canoes drawing slowly into New York Harbor.
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The universes... drift like bubbles in the foam upon the River of Time.
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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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