The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that… — 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
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“We have had our failures.” Yes, Karellen, that was true: and were you the one who failed, before the dawn of human… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“And yet, even while they baffled him, they aroused within his heart a feeling he had never known before. When- which was… — 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