“Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions.… — 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
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if… — 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
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
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
If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods. — 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
If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Invade me now, my ruthless friend, And make me cower in the dark. Remind me that I'm all alone And draw upon… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that… — 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
