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| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
| Technology |
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| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
| Magic; Technology |
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| 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. |
| Mankind |
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| 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. |
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| How inappropriate to call this planet earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. |
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| Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. |
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| I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. |
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| I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.. |
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| I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. |
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| 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. |
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| It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. |
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| 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. |
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| It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. |
| God; Religion; World |
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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! |
| Ideas |
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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. |
| Politicians |
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| Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex 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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