Jan Kelemen

“Civilization and Religion are incompatible” and “Faith is believing what you know isn’t true.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

“Legasov didn’t want to listen. He insisted that they had to take immediate action—whether it was effective or not. “People won’t understand if we do nothing,” Legasov said. “We have to be seen to be doing something.”
― Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

“All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

“History never repeats itself—but historical situations recur.” As”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three