39 ordspråk av Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
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Limits exist only in the mind
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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever -- one day we will overhear it.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
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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 non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.
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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
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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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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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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
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