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Arthur C Clarke
: 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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A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood -- a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.
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To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself I stay on the run.
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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea.
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk.
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Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
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The great discoveries are usually obvious.
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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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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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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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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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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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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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Clarke's Third Law doesn't work in reverse. Given that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," it does not follow that "any magical claim that anybody may make at any time is indistinguishable from a technological advance that well come some time in the future." ... There have admittedly been occasions when authoritative, pontificating skeptics have come away with egg on their faces, even within their own lifetimes. But there have been a far greater number of occasions when magical claims have never been vindicated. An apparent magical claim might eventually turn out to be true. In any age there are so many magical claims that are, or could be, made. They can't all be true; many are mutually contradictory; and we have no reason to suppose that, simply by the act of sitting down and dreaming up a magical claim, we shall make it come true in some future technology. Some things that would surprise us today will come true in the future. But lots and lots of things that would surprise us today will not come true ever.
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