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"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."

"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."

"There are no explanations, there are no answers."

"Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers."
Explore more quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

"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."

"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

"Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a crackling, hissing roar; out of this background, at irregular intervals, emerged brief whistles and peeps like the cries of demented birds. It was an eerie sound, for it had nothing to do with Man; it was as lonely and meaningless as the murmur of waves on a beach, or the distant crash of thunder beyond the horizon."

"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
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