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Results of search for Author: Arthur C. Clarke - Page 2 of 4
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )

Results from Classic Quotes:

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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 up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
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 about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Address to US Congress, 1975
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )

Results from Cole's Quotables:

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Technology and the Future

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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