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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...

Arthur C. Clarke
Past, Two, Eras
"The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1951.

1. 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. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke
Past, Technology, Impossible Things
Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

Arthur C. Clarke
Past, Changed, Folly
Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.36, RosettaBooks

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.

Arthur C. Clarke
Past, Race, Years
"The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1951.

I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.

Arthur C. Clarke
Believe, Past, Men

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