M. Clarke Quotes

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.

Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.

I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.

Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.

My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.

I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

Seek first to understand before being understood.

The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

Your group has a right and responsibility to preside over your behavior and you have a responsibility to make that behavior in a manner that does not endanger the group.

What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.

I believe in spirituality, which is out there.

You shouldn't bear humiliations.

The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.

A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can

I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.

I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God

I think my favorite for music and spirit is Ray Gomez.

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I'm a lover of songs.

There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.

The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.

If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century