“The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!— it’s full of stars! ” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“for there was no vessel—at least of Man’s making—anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Some immaterial pattern of energy, throwing off a spray of radiation like the wake of a racing speedboat, had leaped from the… — 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
In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting… — 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
“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
“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image