Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
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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.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him.
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!
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
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.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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