Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.
Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.