“Though I've often made fun of the scientists, they’ve freed us forever from the stagnation that was overtaking your race.”

— Arthur C. Clarke, book The Road to the Sea

The Road to the Sea, p. 298
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

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