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
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
One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might… — 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
Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it… — 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
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“So here, Floyd told himself, is the first generation of the Spaceborn; there would be more of them in the years to… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew…Mars… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anything else in the circumstances.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“It is not easy to run a shipping line between destinations that not only change their positions by millions of kilometers every… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be… — 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
It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and… — 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
