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Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “They no longer formed a single group, united in the common cause of survival. Now their lives had diverged again into a score of independent aims and ambitions. Humanity had swallowed them up once more, and the ocean swallows a raindrop.”

451. “They no longer formed a single group, united in the common cause of survival. Now their lives had diverged again into a score of independent aims and ambitions. Humanity had swallowed them up once more, and the ocean swallows a raindrop.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “He did not wander aimlessly, though he never knew which village would be his next port of call. He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence – indeed, a way of life.”

452. “He did not wander aimlessly, though he never knew which village would be his next port of call. He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence – indeed, a way of life.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The existence of so much leisure would have created tremendous problems a century before. Education had overcome most of these, for a well stocked mind is safe from boredom.”

453. “The existence of so much leisure would have created tremendous problems a century before. Education had overcome most of these, for a well stocked mind is safe from boredom.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Nicole’s intuition told her not to follow the fireflies, but she said nothing.”

454. “Nicole’s intuition told her not to follow the fireflies, but she said nothing.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “At this point, there flashed briefly through Stenton’s horrified mind the memory of that timeless classic, H. G. Wells’s “The Star.” He had first read it as a small boy, and it had helped to spark his interest in astronomy.”

455. “At this point, there flashed briefly through Stenton’s horrified mind the memory of that timeless classic, H. G. Wells’s “The Star.” He had first read it as a small boy, and it had helped to spark his interest in astronomy.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “How foolish that expectation had been! He knew now that one might as well hope to see the wind, or speculate about the true shape of fire.”

456. “How foolish that expectation had been! He knew now that one might as well hope to see the wind, or speculate about the true shape of fire.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved.”

457. “He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Miss Pringle was not much larger than the handheld personal assistants of his own age, and usually lived, like the Old West’s Colt 45, in a quick-draw holster at his waist.”

458. “Miss Pringle was not much larger than the handheld personal assistants of his own age, and usually lived, like the Old West’s Colt 45, in a quick-draw holster at his waist.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “We are survivors. The only survivors. And survivors always feel guilty at being alive.”

459. “We are survivors. The only survivors. And survivors always feel guilty at being alive.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth.”

460. “When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Someone had once said that you could be terrified in space, but you could not be worried there.”

461. “Someone had once said that you could be terrified in space, but you could not be worried there.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral.”

462. “He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart. No one had really lived until they had achieved that synthesis of love and desire which he had never dreamed existed until he came to Lys. He.”

463. “He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart. No one had really lived until they had achieved that synthesis of love and desire which he had never dreamed existed until he came to Lys. He.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The future is built on the rubbish of the past; wisdom lies in facing that fact, not in fighting against it.”

464. “The future is built on the rubbish of the past; wisdom lies in facing that fact, not in fighting against it.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “He had no wish to face whatever lurked in the unknown darkness, just beyond the little circle of light cast by the lamp of Science.”

465. “He had no wish to face whatever lurked in the unknown darkness, just beyond the little circle of light cast by the lamp of Science.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Believe me, it gives us no pleasure to destroy men’s faiths, but all the world’s religions cannot be right, and they know it.”

466. “Believe me, it gives us no pleasure to destroy men’s faiths, but all the world’s religions cannot be right, and they know it.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The hypothesis you refer to as God, though not disprovable by logic alone, is unnecessary for the following reason. “If you assume that the universe can be quote explained unquote as the creation of an entity known as God, he must obviously be of a higher degree of organization than his product. Thus you have more than doubled the size of the original problem, and have taken the first step on a diverging infinite regress.”

467. “The hypothesis you refer to as God, though not disprovable by logic alone, is unnecessary for the following reason. “If you assume that the universe can be quote explained unquote as the creation of an entity known as God, he must obviously be of a higher degree of organization than his product. Thus you have more than doubled the size of the original problem, and have taken the first step on a diverging infinite regress.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “It had to happen to someone. There is nothing exceptional about you, any more than there is about the first neutron that starts the chain reaction in an atomic bomb. It simply happens to be the first. Any other neutron would have served.”

468. “It had to happen to someone. There is nothing exceptional about you, any more than there is about the first neutron that starts the chain reaction in an atomic bomb. It simply happens to be the first. Any other neutron would have served.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The mind has many watchdogs; sometimes they bark unnecessarily, but a wise man never ignores their warning.”

469. “The mind has many watchdogs; sometimes they bark unnecessarily, but a wise man never ignores their warning.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “If humans could not be rid of religion, it was argued, then let them at least not be harmed by it.”

470. “If humans could not be rid of religion, it was argued, then let them at least not be harmed by it.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “They were, perhaps, as contented as any race the world had known, and after their fashion they were happy. They spent their long lives amid beauty that had never been surpassed, for the labour of millions of centuries had been dedicated to the glory of Diaspar.”

471. “They were, perhaps, as contented as any race the world had known, and after their fashion they were happy. They spent their long lives amid beauty that had never been surpassed, for the labour of millions of centuries had been dedicated to the glory of Diaspar.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “And as for you, Paul, I assured him that you could keep a secret for up to six days without apoplexy.”

472. “And as for you, Paul, I assured him that you could keep a secret for up to six days without apoplexy.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “A thousand years in one body is long enough for any man; at the end of that time, his mind is clogged with memories, and he asks only for rest – or a new beginning.”

473. “A thousand years in one body is long enough for any man; at the end of that time, his mind is clogged with memories, and he asks only for rest – or a new beginning.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Then I remembered that these men didn’t seem any cleverer than I was; they were highly trained, that was all. If one worked hard enough, one could master anything.”

474. “Then I remembered that these men didn’t seem any cleverer than I was; they were highly trained, that was all. If one worked hard enough, one could master anything.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Man sank into a superstitious barbarism during which he distorted history to remove his sense of impotence and failure.”

475. “Man sank into a superstitious barbarism during which he distorted history to remove his sense of impotence and failure.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

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