Politicians should read science fiction, not weste... -Arthur C. Clarke

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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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Arthur C. Clarke was a British science fiction writer and inventor. He is best known for his novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" and his contributions to the genre of science fiction, including his "Three Laws of Prediction." Clarke's imagination and visionary ideas have had a profound impact on popular culture and influenced the development of space exploration and technology.

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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 smal...
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him....
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 forev...
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering....
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power....
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion....
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale....
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society....
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic....
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value....

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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives u...
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science c...
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how y...
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the...
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful....
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of ...
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them....
If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It ...
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic....
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second...