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Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.
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We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars. Once again, as in the days when Homer sang, we are face-to-face with immensity and must accept its grandeur and terror, its inspiring possibilities and its dreadful restraints.
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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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What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts, indeed, sometimes from no facts, in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.
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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superiorscience and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.
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Clarke's Fourth Law: For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor. Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done and was about to do.
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