More from Arthur C. Clarke

  1. Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create Him.
  2. 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.
  3. One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. …
  4. All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
  5. Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
  6. I wanted to kill myself. I would have done it, too, if I had owned a gun. I was considering the gruesome alternatives - pills, slitting my …
  7. As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self…
  8. Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!

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