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| Arthur C. Clarke
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists. CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. 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. Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. 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. It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. 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. It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. Nevertheless, it is vital to remember that information – in the sense of raw data – is not knowledge; that knowledge is not wisdom; and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these. 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! The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.The future isn't what it used to be. The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. |
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