Great Throughts Treasury
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Arthur C Clarke, formally Sir Arthur Charles Clark
British Science Fiction Author, Inventor, and Futurist, known for 2001: A Space Odyssey
"Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts."
"A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a “meaning” as well, that will be a bonus. If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live - or to play. Our graceful, smiling cousins in the sea may be wiser than us."
"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."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."