I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“For Jan was still suffering from the romantic illusion–the cause of so much misery and so much poetry–that every man has only… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own? — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Otto would pull the trigger at the slightest provocation and you, Michael, would agonize aver its morality even if your life were… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Finding intelligent life would encourage people and also of course the opportunity of learning a tremendous amount, but this is a danger.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The universe is full of energy, but much of it is at equilibrium. At equilibrium no energy can flow, and therefore it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“And in its sky was such a sun as no opium eater could ever have imagined in his wildest dreams. Too hot… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In fact, one of the arguments for searching for intelligent life in space, elsewhere, is that we have no evidence that intelligence… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Oh, I can think of many reasons. Perhaps it’s a signal, so that any strange ship entering our universe will know where… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“The universe is full of energy, but much of it is at equilibrium. At equilibrium no energy can flow, and therefore it cannot be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white stars as… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
