Long Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

— Arthur C. Clarke

We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.

— Arthur C. Clarke

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

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

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

When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth…

— Arthur C. Clarke

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life…

— Arthur C. Clarke