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Been Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
- We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a…
- I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write…
- I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad…
- The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing…
- There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be…
- I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
- My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.
- When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme,…
- I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has…
- Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
- One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a…
- In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for…
- Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
- He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air…
- Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than…
- One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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