Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.
Arthur C. ClarkeWe always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isnโt. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planetโs random geological savagery.
Arthur C. ClarkeThe difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.
Arthur C. ClarkeThere is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligenceโor even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
Arthur C. ClarkeIt 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.
Arthur C. ClarkeI'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Arthur C. Clarke. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
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