In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [. . . ] In challenging … - Arthur C. Clarke

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Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Arthur C. Clarke

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [. . . ] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [. . . ] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

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We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.

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It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

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A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.

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Now I understand,” said the last man.

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And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

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