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Arthur C. Clarke has written more than sixty books and is especially well-known for the screenplay of the celebrated film "2001: A Space Odyssey" which he co-wrote with Stanley Kubrick. He is also the inventor of the concept of geostationary satellite communication.
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all. It's this: 'Don't do unto anybody else what you wouldn't like to be done to you.'...
I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species...
...there is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies..."
"Perhaps we should thank the Taliban for finishing the task the Crusades began nine hundred years ago—proving beyond further dispute that Religion is incompatible with Civilization."
"Religion is a disease promoted by starvation, because hungry people hallucinate, and then pray for food. This is why so many religions encourage fasting: it weakens the mind."
"Although religious beliefs mainly result from brain damage acquired in early life, the worst symptoms (e.g. churchgoing) are often delayed for years."
"The psychologist who famously remarked that chastity was the rarest of all sexual perversions might have added that Religion was the most common."
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