History Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

13 History quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

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Clarke’s visionary mind turns to the past in these thirteen reflections, reminding us that even history can feel like a launchpad for future thought.

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“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.”

Arthur C. Clarke

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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in…

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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Arthur C. Clarke

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The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than…

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When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and…

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'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from…

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“This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present sheared asunder from the past as an iceberg splits from…

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“We have had our failures.” Yes, Karellen, that was true: and were you the one who failed, before the dawn of human…

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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in…

Arthur C. Clarke

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Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it…

Arthur C. Clarke

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“Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered…

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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The…

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If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we…

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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware,…

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We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up…

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I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to…

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I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

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You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

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Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

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Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our…

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“The universe is full of energy, but much of it is at equilibrium. At equilibrium no energy can flow, and therefore it cannot be…

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“Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered.”

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“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”

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There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were…

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“Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.”

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They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds…

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“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…

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Now I understand,” said the last man.

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