“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularising science. These along with his science fiction writings eventually earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". His other science fiction writings earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership made him one of the towering figures of science fiction. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system using geostationary orbits. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946–1947 and again in 1951–1953. Clarke emigrated from England to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) in 1956, largely to pursue his interest in scuba diving. That year he discovered the underwater ruins of the ancient Koneswaram temple in Trincomalee. Clarke augmented his fame later on in the 1980s, from being the host of several television shows such as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. He lived in Sri Lanka until his death. Clarke was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 "for services to British cultural interests in Sri Lanka". He was knighted in 1998 and was awarded Sri Lanka's highest civil honour, Sri Lankabhimanya, in 2005. ---From Wikipedia
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“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
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“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
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“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
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“They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.”
“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
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“But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.”
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“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresigh...”
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“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.”
“Humor was the enemy of desire.”
“He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ance...”
“All that had gone before was not a thousandth of what was yet to come; the story of this star had barely begun.”
“Outro pensamento lhe ocorria sempre que varria com os olhos aquelas minúsculas manchetes eletrônicas. Quanto mais maravilhoso o meio de comunicação, mais trivial, medíocre ou deprimente seu...”
“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.”
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“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers...”
“A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.”
“He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.”
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
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“The first true men had tools and weapons only a little better than those of their ancestors a million years earlier, but they could use them with far greater skill. And somewhere in the shad...”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
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