“He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Stormgren had walked to his desk and was fidgeting with his famous uranium paperweight. He was not nervous—merely undecided.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do? — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“It was fascinating to watch that agile mind trying one opening after another, testing and rejecting all the theories that Stormgren himself… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Hilvar knew better than this; he had sensed it instinctively from the first. Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become… — 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
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it… — 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
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