Arthur C. Clarke | "He had a suspicion of plausible answers, they were so often wrong."

"He had a suspicion of plausible answers, they were so often wrong."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

Fallibility, Skepticism, Answers, Doubt, Reasoning

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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers, they were so often wrong."

"It's not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that's deftly deluding mankind. It's man himself."

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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers, they were so often wrong."

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"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

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"I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things."

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"The wisest of the wise may err."

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"He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved."

Psychology

"Humor was the enemy of desire."

Desire

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

Elegance

"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."

Astrology

"Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence."

Logic

"But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme."

Cognition

"And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years."

Science

"The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium."

Beginning

"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."

Limit

"Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children."

Exploration

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"It's not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that's deftly deluding mankind. It's man himself."

Author Name

Personal Development

"He had a suspicion of plausible answers, they were so often wrong."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things."

Author Name

Personal Development

"The wisest of the wise may err."

Author Name

Personal Development

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"He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved."

Psychology

"Humor was the enemy of desire."

Desire

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

Elegance

"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."

Astrology

"Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence."

Logic

"But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme."

Cognition

"And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years."

Science

"The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium."

Beginning

"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."

Limit

"Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children."

Exploration