M. Clarke Quotes
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.
Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy.
We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.
If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.
The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.
I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).
The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.
Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.
People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.
History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have been equipped.
I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy, and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!
So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.
When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.
Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.
